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Philipp Stamma

1705 - 1755

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Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a Syriac 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 54,898 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Stamma is the 96th most popular chess player (down from 65th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Syria (down from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Philipp Stamma ranks 96 out of 374Before him are Veselin Topalov, Ernst Grünfeld, Robert Hübner, Ignatz Kolisch, Jacques Mieses, and Ossip Bernstein. After him are Edward Lasker, Leonid Stein, Jean Dufresne, Michael Adams, Ernst Falkbeer, and Peter Romanovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Philipp Stamma ranks 12Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, David Hartley, Jacques-François Blondel, Peter Artedi, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, and Gerhard Friedrich Müller. After him are Davit Guramishvili, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Dick Turpin, and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke. Among people deceased in 1755, Philipp Stamma ranks 10Before him are Francesco Durante, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Johann Georg Gmelin, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Johann Georg Pisendel. After him are Stepan Krasheninnikov, Edward Braddock, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Maurice Greene.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Philipp Stamma ranks 128 out of 181Before him are Hilarion Capucci (1922), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Assef Shawkat (1950), Ghada al-Samman (1942), and Maher al-Assad (1967). After him are Ignatius IV of Antioch (1920), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Khalid Bakdash (1912), Riad al-Asaad (1961), Émile Eddé (1883), and Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Syria

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