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Peter Leko

1979 - Today

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Peter Leko (Hungarian: Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was drawn 7–7 and so Vladimir Kramnik retained the title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Leko has received more than 324,199 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 43 in 2019). Peter Leko is the 230th most popular chess player (down from 222nd in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 299th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Peter Leko ranks 230 out of 374Before him are Alexander Chernin, Zhu Chen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Valery Salov, Xu Yuhua, and Teimour Radjabov. After him are Israel Albert Horowitz, Walter Browne, Joël Lautier, Alireza Firouzja, Zdenko Kožul, and Elina Danielian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Peter Leko ranks 325Before him are Kōji Nakata, Lucas Severino, Lars Berger, Lisa Batiashvili, JoAnna Garcia, and Radoslav Kováč. After him are Gao Yuanyuan, Show Lo, Jean-François Gillet, Artur Avila, Seol Ki-hyeon, and Deng Chao.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Peter Leko ranks 334 out of 564Before him are Prvoslav Vujcic (1960), Momir Rnić (1955), Vuk Jeremić (1975), Gojko Kačar (1987), Ivana Španović (1990), and Darko Miličić (1985). After him are Matija Nastasić (1993), Zoran Tošić (1987), Ivan Miljković (1979), Dejan Tomašević (1973), Milan Jovanović (1981), and Milan Stanković (1987).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Peter Leko ranks 8Before him are Svetozar Gligorić (1923), Boris Kostić (1887), Boško Abramović (1951), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), and Andrija Fuderer (1931).