Mir Sultan Khan

Mir Sultan Khan

Sultan Khan (Punjabi and Urdu: میاں سلطان خان, 1903 – 25 April 1966; often given the erroneous honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a British Indian Punjabi chess player, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who is thought to have been the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. The son of a Muslim landlord and preacher, Khan travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan (Sir Umar), to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four attempts (1929, 1932, 1933), and had tournament and match results that placed him among the top ten players in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir Sultan Khan has received more than 224,935 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mir Sultan Khan is the 171st most popular chess player (down from 154th in 2019).