CHESS PLAYER

Ratmir Kholmov

1925 - 2006

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Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov (Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff. Kholmov was not well known in the West, since he never competed there during his career peak, being confined to events in socialist countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ratmir Kholmov has received more than 37,853 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ratmir Kholmov is the 164th most popular chess player, the 2,084th most popular biography from Russia and the 25th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ratmir Kholmov ranks 164 out of 461. Before him are Johann Berger, George Koltanowski, Hermann Pilnik, Zoltán Ribli, Eduard Gufeld, and Clarice Benini. After him are Vassily Ivanchuk, Giambattista Lolli, Henry Bird, Endre Steiner, Susan Polgár, and Rafael Vaganian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ratmir Kholmov ranks 417. Before him are Alain Decaux, Johnny Mandel, Gwen Verdon, Leon Schlumpf, Daphne Oram, and Ali Bozer. After him are Eva Ibbotson, Gunnar Birkerts, Ngiratkel Etpison, Margaretha Krook, June Lockhart, and Martha Vickers. Among people deceased in 2006, Ratmir Kholmov ranks 289. Before him are Jan Twardowski, Tony Jay, Charles Haughey, Bob Mathias, Lidia Wysocka, and Peter Osgood. After him are Juice Leskinen, Kenneth Lay, Arthur Lee, Katherine Dunham, Liese Prokop, and Robert Earl Jones.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ratmir Kholmov ranks 2,084 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennadi Volnov (1939), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Aleksei Serebryakov (1964), Peter Lesgaft (1837), Ivan Fomin (1872), and Sergey Tereshchenko (1951). After him are Artur Chilingarov (1939), Nikolai Lugansky (1972), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), Alexandr Romankov (1953), Alexander Ovechkin (1985), and Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Ratmir Kholmov ranks 25. Before him are Alexander Khalifman (1966), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Artur Yusupov (1960), Lev Alburt (1945), and Gennadi Sosonko (1943). After him are Anatoly Lein (1931), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), Irina Levitina (1954), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), and Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990).

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