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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 76,421 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Lionel Kieseritzky is the 64th most popular chess player (down from 61st in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 64 out of 374Before him are Dawid Janowski, Jan Timman, Olga Rubtsova, Milan Vidmar, Vladimir Kramnik, and Rudolf Spielmann. After him are Szymon Winawer, Alexander Kotov, Semyon Alapin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, and Isaac Boleslavsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 28Before him are Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Karl Friedrich Mohr, John A. Roebling, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Juliette Drouet. After him are Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Giacomo Antonelli, Michel Chevalier, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, and Teodolfo Mertel. Among people deceased in 1853, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 26Before him are Andries Pretorius, Frédéric Ozanam, George Onslow, Auguste Laurent, Anastasio Bustamante, and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine. After him are Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Louis Visconti, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Amalia of Sweden, and Hyacinth.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Lionel Kieseritzky ranks 54 out of 310Before him are Jüri Tamm (1957), George Hackenschmidt (1877), Karl Ernst Claus (1796), Friedrich Martens (1845), Aleksander Klumberg (1899), and Herman Wrangel (1584). After him are Veljo Tormis (1930), Eduard Tubin (1905), Kaja Kallas (1977), Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793), Johannes Aavik (1880), and Johannes Vares (1890).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Estonia

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