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Semyon Alapin

1856 - 1923

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Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin (Russian: Семён Зиновьевич Алапин; 19 November [O.S. 7 November] 1856 – 15 July 1923) was a Russian chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Semyon Alapin has received more than 41,952 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Semyon Alapin is the 67th most popular chess player (up from 70th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 948th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Semyon Alapin ranks 67 out of 374. Before him are Milan Vidmar, Vladimir Kramnik, Rudolf Spielmann, Lionel Kieseritzky, Szymon Winawer, and Alexander Kotov. After him are Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, Alessandro Salvio, and István Csom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Semyon Alapin ranks 65. Before him are Georg von der Marwitz, Louise Catherine Breslau, José Batlle y Ordóñez, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Giuseppe Martucci, and Alexander Izvolsky. After him are Carl Peters, Booker T. Washington, Karl Krumbacher, Eduardo Dato, Yu Kil-chun, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. Among people deceased in 1923, Semyon Alapin ranks 56. Before him are Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Dora Pejačević, Katō Tomosaburō, Fritz Mauthner, Sayed Darwish, and Louis Couperus. After him are Hermes da Fonseca, Takeo Arishima, Stojan Protić, Ruy Barbosa, Horace Parnell Tuttle, and Andrés Avelino Cáceres.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Semyon Alapin ranks 992 out of 3,262. Before him are Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Alexander Izvolsky (1856), Anatoly Tarasov (1918), and Ludmila Savelyeva (1942). After him are Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), Matvey Blanter (1903), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), and Andrei Kirilenko (1906).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Semyon Alapin ranks 16. Before him are Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), and Alexander Kotov (1913). After him are Alexander Petrov (1799), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), and Gennadi Sosonko (1943).

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