CHESS PLAYER

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 387,206 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Peter Leko is the 264th most popular chess player (down from 230th in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from Serbia (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Peter Leko ranks 264 out of 461. Before him are Lev Psakhis, Sergei Tiviakov, Zdenko Kožul, Alexander Chernin, Raymond Keene, and Manuel Aaron. After him are Israel Albert Horowitz, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, Cristina Adela Foișor, Kateryna Lagno, and Suat Atalık.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Peter Leko ranks 414. Before him are Mitsuo Ogasawara, Vyacheslav Malafeev, Riki Lindhome, Petra Němcová, Joanna Krupa, and Yelena Podkaminskaya. After him are Hend Sabry, Peguy Luyindula, Andrés Nocioni, Dave Annable, Osleidys Menéndez, and David Di Tommaso.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Peter Leko ranks 422 out of 661. Before him are Nemanja Bjelica (1988), Momir Ilić (1981), Filip Filipović (1987), Bojana Novakovic (1981), Marco Huck (1984), and Igor Milanović (1965). After him are Nemanja Nikolić (1987), Dušan Basta (1984), Stefan Mitrović (1990), Nebojša Krupniković (1973), Matija Nastasić (1993), and Zoran Stefanović (1969).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Peter Leko ranks 9. Before him are Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Boris Kostić (1887), Borislav Ivkov (1933), Andrija Fuderer (1931), Milunka Lazarević (1932), and Boško Abramović (1951).

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