CHESS PLAYER

Pentala Harikrishna

1986 - Today

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Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He became the youngest grandmaster from India after attaining the title in 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004, and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pentala Harikrishna has received more than 398,966 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Pentala Harikrishna is the 416th most popular chess player (down from 363rd in 2019), the 1,579th most popular biography from India (down from 1,244th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 25.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pentala Harikrishnas by language

Over the past year Pentala Harikrishna has had the most page views in the with 52,532 views, followed by German (2,547), and Russian (2,452). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Eastern Punjabi (68.55%), Malayalam (64.17%), and Armenian (63.14%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Pentala Harikrishna ranks 416 out of 461. Before him are Vladimir Potkin, Ni Hua, Lei Tingjie, Csaba Balogh, Zhansaya Abdumalik, and Vladimir Fedoseev. After him are Anna Rudolf, Igor Kurnosov, Nidjat Mamedov, Ferenc Berkes, Sergei Azarov, and Markus Ragger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Pentala Harikrishna ranks 1,340. Before him are Ronald Mulder, Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, Michael Jakobsen, Johannes van den Bergh, Jake Arrieta, and Jiang Wenwen. After him are Jérémy Cadot, Jiang Tingting, Toro y Moi, Emiliano Armenteros, Raviv Ullman, and Big Cass.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pentala Harikrishna ranks 1,579 out of 1,861. Before him are P.V.R. Raja (1985), Manushi Chhillar (1997), Padmasree Warrior (1961), Tara Sutaria (1995), Dinesh Karthik (1985), and Namitha (1981). After him are Nithiin (1983), Ashish Nehra (1979), Preeti Jhangiani (1980), Imtiaz Ali (1971), Deepika Kumari (1994), and Divya Khosla Kumar (1987).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Pentala Harikrishna ranks 7. Before him are Viswanathan Anand (1969), Vidit Gujrathi (1994), R Vaishali (2001), Humpy Koneru (1987), Tania Sachdev (1986), and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2005). After him are Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Krishnan Sasikiran (1981), Yuzvendra Chahal (1990), Parimarjan Negi (1993), and Surya Shekhar Ganguly (1983).

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