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Salo Flohr

1908 - 1983

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Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salo Flohr has received more than 82,861 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Salo Flohr is the 49th most popular chess player (down from 40th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 228th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Salo Flohr ranks 49 out of 374Before him are Svetozar Gligorić, Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, and Lajos Portisch. After him are Viswanathan Anand, Géza Maróczy, Elisaveta Bykova, Carl Schlechter, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Mark Taimanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Salo Flohr ranks 102Before him are Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Jacques Massu, Sicco Mansholt, Lev Pontryagin, Lionel Hampton, and Michael DeBakey. After him are Lee Krasner, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Sarit Thanarat, João Guimarães Rosa, Arturo Frondizi, and Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine. Among people deceased in 1983, Salo Flohr ranks 73Before him are Tino Rossi, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Dalio, Arno Babajanian, Carolyn Jones, and Ira Gershwin. After him are Jean Rey, Ferenc Plattkó, Sharof Rashidov, Lamberto Maggiorani, John Vorster, and Bernard Vukas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Salo Flohr ranks 294 out of 1,083Before him are Andrey Razumovsky (1752), Ruslana (1973), Olga Khokhlova (1891), Borys Paton (1918), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), and Tadeusz Borowski (1922). After him are Efim Geller (1925), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Vasyl Stus (1938), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), and Zbigniew Herbert (1924).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, Salo Flohr ranks 4Before him are David Bronstein (1924), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), and Lyudmila Rudenko (1904). After him are Mark Taimanov (1926), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Leonid Stein (1934), Georg Marco (1863), Nicolas Rossolimo (1910), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), and Boris Verlinsky (1888).