CHESS PLAYER

Manuel Aaron

1935 - Today

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Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. He is India's first chess player to be awarded the FIDE Title of International Master, and is one of the key figures in introducing international chess practices to India; until the 1960s, Indian chess (known as chaturanga) was often played using many local traditional variants (e.g. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Aaron has received more than 105,713 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Manuel Aaron is the 263rd most popular chess player (down from 240th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Myanmar (Burma) (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Burmese Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Manuel Aaron ranks 263 out of 461. Before him are Anna Muzychuk, Lev Psakhis, Sergei Tiviakov, Zdenko Kožul, Alexander Chernin, and Raymond Keene. After him are Peter Leko, Israel Albert Horowitz, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, Cristina Adela Foișor, and Kateryna Lagno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Manuel Aaron ranks 534. Before him are Rajmohan Gandhi, Gail Fisher, Mel Charles, Jane Dee Hull, Bobby Bare, and John Spencer. After him are Harry B. Gray, John Inman, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Dorothy Masuka, Shyama, and Jon Henricks.

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In Myanmar (Burma)

Among people born in Myanmar (Burma), Manuel Aaron ranks 38 out of 40. Before him are Maha Bandula (1782), San Yu (1918), Helen (1938), Charles Maung Bo (1948), James Wilby (1958), and Ashin Wirathu (1968). After him are Prakash Karat (1948), Vijay Rupani (1956), and Ye Tun Naung (1983).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Myanmar (Burma)

Among chess players born in Myanmar (Burma), Manuel Aaron ranks 1. 

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