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Mikhail Botvinnik

1911 - 1995

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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (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 818,802 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Mikhail Botvinnik is the 8th most popular chess player (down from 7th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 122nd 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 374. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, and Emanuel Lasker. After him are Nona Gaprindashvili, Max Euwe, Tigran Petrosian, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, and François-André Danican Philidor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 18. Before him are Todor Zhivkov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Marshall McLuhan, Czesław Miłosz, Jack Ruby, and Robert Johnson. After him are Tennessee Williams, Melvin Calvin, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, William Alfred Fowler, Wilhelm Mohnke, and Joseph Barbera. Among people deceased in 1995, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 12. Before him are Emmanuel Levinas, Michael Ende, Eugene Wigner, Konrad Zuse, Gunnar Nordahl, and Anatoly Dyatlov. After him are Adolf Butenandt, William Alfred Fowler, Dean Martin, Alec Douglas-Home, Jonas Salk, and Donald Pleasence.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 132 out of 3,262. Before him are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Alexei Rykov (1881), and Alexander Kolchak (1874). After him are Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Mily Balakirev (1837), Felix Yusupov (1887), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), and Martti Ahtisaari (1937).

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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), Vera Menchik (1906), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Elisaveta Bykova (1913).

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