CHESS PLAYER

Mikhail Tal

1936 - 1992

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Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Tal has received more than 2,152,447 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Mikhail Tal is the 4th most popular chess player (up from 5th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Chess Player.

Mikhail Tal is most famous for his chess playing. He was a Soviet chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and a chess coach.

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  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Mikhail Tal ranks 4 out of 461. Before him are Bobby Fischer, Wilhelm Steinitz, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are Alexander Alekhine, Boris Spassky, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, and Garry Kasparov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Mikhail Tal ranks 11. Before him are Alan Alda, Yves Saint Laurent, Barry Barish, Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Redford, and Ken Loach. After him are Amancio Ortega, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Andrei Chikatilo, F. W. de Klerk, John McCain, and Valery Legasov. Among people deceased in 1992, Mikhail Tal ranks 11. Before him are Menachem Begin, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Joan Fuster, Francis Bacon, and Astor Piazzolla. After him are Olivier Messiaen, Giovanni Falcone, John Cage, Barbara McClintock, Benny Hill, and Anthony Perkins.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Mikhail Tal ranks 4 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), and Mark Rothko (1903). After him are Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Jacob Kettler (1610).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Latvia

Among chess players born in Latvia, Mikhail Tal ranks 1. After him are Hermanis Matisons (1894), Alexei Shirov (1972), Vladimirs Petrovs (1907), Arkadij Naiditsch (1985), Dana Reizniece-Ozola (1981), and Alexander Shabalov (1967).

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