CHESS PLAYER

Mikhail Botvinnik

1911 - 1995

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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Russian: Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник, romanized: Mikhaíl Moiseyevich Botvínnik) (August 17 [O.S. August 4] 1911 – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Botvinnik has received more than 876,478 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Mikhail Botvinnik is the 8th most popular chess player, the 126th most popular biography from Russia (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Chess Player.

Mikhail Botvinnik is most famous for being the first world chess champion from the Soviet Union.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 8 out of 461. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz, José Raúl Capablanca, Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, Boris Spassky, and Emanuel Lasker. After him are Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, Garry Kasparov, Vasily Smyslov, and François-André Danican Philidor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 15. Before him are Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, Nino Rota, and Czesław Miłosz. After him are Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Robert Johnson. Among people deceased in 1995, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 7. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, Eugene Wigner, and Michael Ende. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, Dean Martin, and Harold Wilson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 126 out of 3,761. Before him are Feodor III of Russia (1661), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), False Dmitry I (1581), Joseph Brodsky (1940), and Mikhail Lermontov (1814). After him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Valery Legasov (1936).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Alekhine (1892), and Boris Spassky (1937). After him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913).

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