CHESS PLAYER

Robert Byrne

1928 - 2013

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Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess player and chess author who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Byrne has received more than 26,390 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Byrne is the 201st most popular chess player (down from 187th in 2019), the 10,146th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,380th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Chess Player.

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  • 26k

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  • 43.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Robert Byrne ranks 201 out of 461. Before him are Jonathan Penrose, Leonid Shamkovich, Nick de Firmian, Isaac Kashdan, Gyula Sax, and Nana Ioseliani. After him are John Owen, Predrag Nikolić, Julio Bolbochán, Irina Levitina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Ian Nepomniachtchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Robert Byrne ranks 525. Before him are Ed Macauley, René Vautier, Dagmar Rom, Sheila Lerwill, George Maharis, and Jerry Bock. After him are Manuel Muñoz, Vilayat Khan, Jean-François Deniau, Malachi Throne, Jean E. Sammet, and Władysław Hasior. Among people deceased in 2013, Robert Byrne ranks 432. Before him are Yvonne Brill, Stan Vickers, Sharon Stouder, Peter Geach, Milo O'Shea, and Ronnie Ray Smith. After him are Gordon Thomas, Taisia Chenchik, Ebbe Parsner, Malachi Throne, Magic Slim, and Hugh Huxley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Byrne ranks 10,146 out of 20,380. Before him are A.J. Styles (1977), Perry McGillivray (1893), Dorothy Comingore (1913), Shirley Mason (1901), Marceline Day (1908), and Jerry Bock (1928). After him are Peter Orlovsky (1933), Bob Gibson (1935), Charles Sands (1865), Eubie Blake (2), Alex Grey (1953), and Scott Baio (1960).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United States

Among chess players born in United States, Robert Byrne ranks 11. Before him are Reuben Fine (1914), William Lombardy (1937), Jackson Showalter (1860), Arnold Denker (1914), Nick de Firmian (1957), and Isaac Kashdan (1905). After him are Fabiano Caruana (1992), Israel Albert Horowitz (1907), Larry Evans (1932), Hans Niemann (2003), Levy Rozman (1995), and Joel Benjamin (1964).

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