CHESS PLAYER

Nicolas Rossolimo

1910 - 1975

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Nicolas Rossolimo (Russian: Николай Спиридонович Россоли́мо, romanized: Nikolai Spiridonovich Rossolimo; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian Empire-born chess player. After acquiring Greek citizenship in 1929, he was able to emigrate that year to France, and was many times chess champion of Paris. In 1952 he emigrated to the United States, and won the 1955 U.S. Open Chess Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Rossolimo has received more than 61,333 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nicolas Rossolimo is the 113th most popular chess player (up from 128th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 614th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 61k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Nicolas Rossolimos by language

Over the past year Nicolas Rossolimo has had the most page views in the with 7,164 views, followed by Russian (2,410), and French (1,397). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (58.58%), Hebrew (52.48%), and Ukrainian (37.61%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 113 out of 461. Before him are Leonid Stein, Petar Trifunović, William Lombardy, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ljubomir Ljubojević, and Ernst Falkbeer. After him are Sonja Graf, Vasja Pirc, Daniel Harrwitz, Jackson Showalter, Alexander McDonnell, and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 239. Before him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Petar Trifunović, Robert Havemann, Piero Pasinati, and Elemér Kocsis. After him are Hector Dyer, Ramón Zabalo, Else Alfelt, Rachel de Queiroz, Raoul Diagne, and Ellen Braumüller. Among people deceased in 1975, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 174. Before him are Pete Ham, Alf Andersen, Jacob Bjerknes, Maurice Feltin, Paul Verhoeven, and Heinz Müller. After him are Antonín Vodička, Fritz Wotruba, Ernst Alexanderson, Bas Jan Ader, Max Gluckman, and Piero Dusio.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 703 out of 1,365. Before him are Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1949), Leo Deutsch (1855), Jan Szczepanik (1872), and Ariel Durant (1898). After him are Mykhaylo Semenko (1892), Zbigniew Messner (1929), Oleksiy Fedorov (1901), Julian Fałat (1853), Alexander Tairov (1885), and Yevhen Stankovych (1942).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 11. Before him are Mark Taimanov (1926), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Georg Marco (1863), Ossip Bernstein (1882), and Leonid Stein (1934). After him are Kira Zvorykina (1919), Boris Verlinsky (1888), Eduard Gufeld (1936), Vassily Ivanchuk (1969), Ruslan Ponomariov (1983), and Oleg Romanishin (1952).

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