CHESS PLAYER

Milan Vidmar

1885 - 1962

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Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milan Vidmar has received more than 75,300 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Milan Vidmar is the 50th most popular chess player (up from 61st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Milan Vidmar ranks 50 out of 461. Before him are Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alessandro Salvio, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, Rudolf Spielmann, and Joseph Henry Blackburne. After him are Jan Timman, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, Alexander Kotov, Lionel Kieseritzky, and Magnus Carlsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Milan Vidmar ranks 96. Before him are Lilly Reich, Dorando Pietri, Paul von Hase, Pierre Renoir, Alexandros Koryzis, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. After him are Frank Knight, Constantin Sănătescu, Elihan Tore, Ralph Rose, Viggo Brun, and Leó Weiner. Among people deceased in 1962, Milan Vidmar ranks 74. Before him are Hans von Salmuth, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Tod Browning, Enrico Mattei, Henri Wallon, and Trygve Gulbranssen. After him are Erik Scavenius, Mouloud Feraoun, Juan Belmonte, Richard Aldington, Candido Portinari, and Charles Galton Darwin.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Milan Vidmar ranks 43 out of 340. Before him are Srečko Katanec (1963), Leon Rupnik (1880), Franc Rode (1934), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Robert Golob (1967), and Anna of Cilli (1380). After him are Drago Jančar (1948), Leon Štukelj (1898), Ivana Kobilca (1861), Ivan Regen (1868), Jakob Lorber (1800), and Anton Janša (1734).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovenia

Among chess players born in Slovenia, Milan Vidmar ranks 1. After him are Vasja Pirc (1907), and Albin Planinc (1944).

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