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Nick de Firmian

1957 - Today

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Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957) is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1985. He is a three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998. He also tied for first in 2002, but Larry Christiansen won the playoff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nick de Firmian has received more than 110,234 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nick de Firmian is the 197th most popular chess player (down from 195th in 2019), the 9,990th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,783rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Chess Player.

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  • 110k

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  • 43.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 0.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Nick de Firmian ranks 197 out of 461. Before him are Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Vladimirs Petrovs, Jonathan Penrose, and Leonid Shamkovich. After him are Isaac Kashdan, Gyula Sax, Nana Ioseliani, Robert Byrne, John Owen, and Predrag Nikolić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Nick de Firmian ranks 450. Before him are John Ribat, Arnoldo Iguarán, Jay Roach, Jon Gries, Yury Usachov, and Eleftheria Arvanitaki. After him are Cyril Collard, Wilfried Hannes, Anna Fotyga, Mark Mancina, Katie Couric, and Murat Zyazikov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nick de Firmian ranks 9,990 out of 20,380. Before him are Penny Hardaway (1971), Rufus King (1755), Erin Gray (1950), Ryan White (1971), Bruce Broughton (1945), and Lauren Shuler Donner (1949). After him are Clarence Clark (1859), Danny Ongais (1942), Maurice Stokes (1933), Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), and Bob Hayes (1942).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United States

Among chess players born in United States, Nick de Firmian ranks 9. Before him are Frank Marshall (1877), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), Reuben Fine (1914), William Lombardy (1937), Jackson Showalter (1860), and Arnold Denker (1914). After him are Isaac Kashdan (1905), Robert Byrne (1928), Fabiano Caruana (1992), Israel Albert Horowitz (1907), Larry Evans (1932), and Hans Niemann (2003).

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