CHESS PLAYER

Paul Keres

1916 - 1975

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Paul Keres ([ˈpɑu̯l ˈkeres]; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. As Estonia was repeatedly invaded and occupied during World War II, Keres was forced by the circumstances to represent the Soviet Union (1940–41, 1944–75) and Nazi Germany (1941–44) in international tournaments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Keres has received more than 413,557 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Paul Keres is the 18th most popular chess player (up from 19th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Chess Player.

Paul Keres is most famous for being a chess grandmaster and for being the only person to win the chess World Championship title three times.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Paul Keres by language

Over the past year Paul Keres has had the most page views in the with 39,436 views, followed by Russian (15,531), and Estonian (13,522). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Croatian (410.86%), Belarusian (271.82%), and Armenian (103.35%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Paul Keres ranks 18 out of 461. Before him are Garry Kasparov, Vasily Smyslov, François-André Danican Philidor, Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Paul Morphy. After him are Ruy López de Segura, Viktor Korchnoi, Samuel Reshevsky, Judit Polgár, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Akiba Rubinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Paul Keres ranks 34. Before him are Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Natalia Ginzburg, Dương Văn Minh, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Vitaly Ginzburg. After him are Sune Bergström, Christian B. Anfinsen, Peter Weiss, Bernard Lewis, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, and Jean Dausset. Among people deceased in 1975, Paul Keres ranks 26. Before him are Robert Robinson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Antonín Novotný, Graham Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, and Eisaku Satō. After him are Latife Uşşaki, Éamon de Valera, Pavel Sukhoi, Edward Tatum, Julian Huxley, and József Mindszenty.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Paul Keres ranks 10 out of 351. Before him are Arvo Pärt (1935), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Konstantin Päts (1874), and Lennart Meri (1929). After him are Louis Kahn (1901), Arnold Rüütel (1928), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), Alar Karis (1958), Felix Kersten (1898), and Adolf von Harnack (1851).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Estonia

Among chess players born in Estonia, Paul Keres ranks 1. After him are Lionel Kieseritzky (1806), Vladas Mikėnas (1910), and Paul Felix Schmidt (1916).

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