CHESS PLAYER

Lionel Kieseritzky

1806 - 1853

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Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (Russian: Лионель Адальберт Багратион Феликс Кизерицкий; 1 January 1806 [O.S. 20 December 1805] – 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1853) was a Baltic German chess master and theoretician, known for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, known as the "Immortal Game". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lionel Kieseritzky has received more than 80,638 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lionel Kieseritzky is the 55th most popular chess player (up from 64th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Estonia (up from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 55 out of 461. Before him are Joseph Henry Blackburne, Milan Vidmar, Jan Timman, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, and Alexander Kotov. After him are Magnus Carlsen, Salo Flohr, Aleksandar Matanović, Géza Maróczy, Viswanathan Anand, and Dawid Janowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 28. Before him are Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Juliette Drouet, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After him are Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Giacomo Antonelli, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Michel Chevalier, Henriette Sontag, and Teodolfo Mertel. Among people deceased in 1853, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 24. Before him are Julius Jacob von Haynau, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Andries Pretorius, Frédéric Ozanam, Joaquin Murrieta, and Anastasio Bustamante. After him are Auguste Laurent, Princess Amalia of Sweden, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Branko Radičević, and Mathieu Orfila.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 52 out of 351. Before him are Hermann von Keyserling (1880), Johannes Vares (1890), Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland (1601), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Marie Under (1883), and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914). After him are Ita Ever (1931), Balthasar Russow (1536), Jaan Tõnisson (1868), Karl Ernst Claus (1796), Eduard Tubin (1905), and Eduard von Toll (1858).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Estonia

Among chess players born in Estonia, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 2. Before him are Paul Keres (1916). After him are Vladas Mikėnas (1910), and Paul Felix Schmidt (1916).

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