CHESS PLAYER

Savielly Tartakower

1887 - 1956

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Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Savielly Tartakower has received more than 209,881 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Savielly Tartakower is the 30th most popular chess player (down from 28th in 2019), the 495th most popular biography from Russia (down from 458th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

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  • 59.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Savielly Tartakower has had the most page views in the with 27,350 views, followed by Russian (12,345), and French (6,158). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (98.39%), Cantonese (96.12%), and Basque (76.21%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Savielly Tartakower ranks 30 out of 461. Before him are Akiba Rubinstein, Richard Réti, Johannes Zukertort, David Bronstein, Mikhail Chigorin, and Miguel Najdorf. After him are Vera Menchik, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Bent Larsen, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Carl Schlechter, and Gioachino Greco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Savielly Tartakower ranks 68. Before him are Joseph Bech, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Josef Čapek, Sivananda Saraswati, Marcus Garvey, and Conrad Hilton. After him are Georg Heym, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, René Spitz, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Tetsu Katayama, and Vasily Chapayev. Among people deceased in 1956, Savielly Tartakower ranks 49. Before him are Mahmud Barzanji, Gustave Charpentier, Gianpiero Combi, Walter Sydney Adams, Art Tatum, and Lyonel Feininger. After him are Erich Kleiber, Hiram Bingham III, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Otto Schmidt, Max Emmerich, and Drastamat Kanayan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Savielly Tartakower ranks 495 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Taneyev (1856), Vera Zasulich (1849), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826). After him are Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Oleg Protopopov (1932), Korney Chukovsky (1882), and Gavrila Derzhavin (1743).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Savielly Tartakower ranks 8. Before him are Boris Spassky (1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), and Mikhail Chigorin (1850). After him are Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), and Vladimir Kramnik (1975).

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