CHESS PLAYER

Mark Taimanov

1926 - 2016

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Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Taimanov has received more than 287,119 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mark Taimanov is the 63rd most popular chess player (down from 55th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 300th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Mark Taimanov ranks 63 out of 461. Before him are Salo Flohr, Aleksandar Matanović, Géza Maróczy, Viswanathan Anand, Dawid Janowski, and Elisaveta Bykova. After him are Vladimir Kramnik, Olga Rubtsova, Szymon Winawer, Semyon Alapin, Isaac Boleslavsky, and Michael Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Mark Taimanov ranks 176. Before him are Mieczysław Rakowski, Jeffrey Hunter, Sonja Ziemann, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Lou Ottens, and Dennis W. Sciama. After him are Big Mama Thornton, James Samuel Coleman, Shigeru Kayano, Alfred Pfaff, Mickey Hargitay, and Frank Finlay. Among people deceased in 2016, Mark Taimanov ranks 165. Before him are Ilse Aichinger, Bill Nunn, Artur Fischer, Frano Selak, Jadranka Stojaković, and Papa Wemba. After him are Franciszek Macharski, Pierre Barouh, Qahhor Mahkamov, Silvio Gazzaniga, Scotty Moore, and Rick Parfitt.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mark Taimanov ranks 397 out of 1,365. Before him are Polina Astakhova (1936), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Stanisław Maczek (1892), Anna Walentynowicz (1929), and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896). After him are Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Ivan Poddubny (1871), Mykola Pymonenko (1862), Pavlo Lazarenko (1953), Pavel Rybalko (1894), and Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, Mark Taimanov ranks 5. Before him are David Bronstein (1924), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), and Salo Flohr (1908). After him are Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Georg Marco (1863), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Leonid Stein (1934), Nicolas Rossolimo (1910), and Kira Zvorykina (1919).

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