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Miguel Najdorf

1910 - 1997

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Miguel Najdorf ( NY-dorf; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish–Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Najdorf has received more than 262,704 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Najdorf is the 26th most popular chess player (down from 25th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 253rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Chess Player.

Miguel Najdorf is most famous for his contribution to the game of chess. He was a Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster and a chess writer. Najdorf was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910 and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1997. He was an International Master from 1951 and a Grandmaster from 1953. Najdorf is known for his contributions to opening theory, especially for the Sicilian Defense. Najdorf also introduced the Najdorf Variation in the Sicilian Defense.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Miguel Najdorf ranks 26 out of 374. Before him are Viktor Korchnoi, Vera Menchik, Ruy López de Segura, Siegbert Tarrasch, Richard Réti, and Akiba Rubinstein. After him are Judit Polgár, Savielly Tartakower, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Johannes Zukertort, Bent Larsen, and Mikhail Chigorin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Miguel Najdorf ranks 52. Before him are Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Archer Martin, Eero Saarinen, Lobsang Rampa, John Sturges, and Shunichi Kumai. After him are Dorothy Vaughan, Imi Lichtenfeld, Tjalling Koopmans, J. Allen Hynek, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, and Pavel Batitsky. Among people deceased in 1997, Miguel Najdorf ranks 58. Before him are Carl Gustav Hempel, Stéphane Grappelli, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Alexander R. Todd, and Yuri Nikulin. After him are Narciso Yepes, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Marco Ferreri, Masaru Ibuka, André Franquin, and Roland Topor.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Miguel Najdorf ranks 243 out of 1,454. Before him are Przemysł II (1257), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), and Akiba Rubinstein (1880). After him are Kurt Tank (1898), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Miguel Najdorf ranks 6. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), and Akiba Rubinstein (1880). After him are Johannes Zukertort (1842), Szymon Winawer (1838), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Edward Lasker (1885), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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