CHESS PLAYER

Philipp Stamma

1705 - 1755

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Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His reputation rests largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France (English translation: The Noble Game Of Chess 1745). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Stamma has received more than 58,241 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Stamma is the 74th most popular chess player (up from 96th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Syria (up from 128th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Philipp Stamma ranks 74 out of 461. Before him are Isaac Boleslavsky, Michael Adams, Vlastimil Hort, Louis Paulsen, Edward Lasker, and Pal Benko. After him are Lev Polugaevsky, Adolf Albin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Rudolf Charousek, and Rashid Nezhmetdinov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Philipp Stamma ranks 11. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Charles-André van Loo, David Hartley, Jacques-François Blondel, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Peter Artedi. After him are Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Davit Guramishvili, Dick Turpin, and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke. Among people deceased in 1755, Philipp Stamma ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Johann Georg Pisendel, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johann Georg Gmelin, and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz. After him are Zhang Tingyu, Edward Braddock, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Stepan Krasheninnikov, Angelo Maria Querini, and Maurice Greene.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Philipp Stamma ranks 123 out of 210. Before him are Michael Ansara (1922), Assef Shawkat (1950), Antiochus Hierax (-266), Ignatius Moses I Daoud (1930), Maher al-Assad (1967), and Aram Tigran (1934). After him are Elia Abu Madi (1890), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Jean Carzou (1907), Malchus (450), and Maryana Marrash (1848).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Syria

Among chess players born in Syria, Philipp Stamma ranks 1. After him are Yasser Seirawan (1960).

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