CHESS PLAYER

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 41,528 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Semyon Alapin is the 67th most popular chess player, the 1,092nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 990th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 42k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Semyon Alapins by language

Over the past year Semyon Alapin has had the most page views in the with 5,956 views, followed by Russian (4,169), and Spanish (2,053). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (94.00%), Finnish (65.74%), and Spanish (54.83%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Semyon Alapin ranks 67 out of 461. Before him are Dawid Janowski, Elisaveta Bykova, Mark Taimanov, Vladimir Kramnik, Olga Rubtsova, and Szymon Winawer. After him are Isaac Boleslavsky, Michael Adams, Vlastimil Hort, Louis Paulsen, Edward Lasker, and Pal Benko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Semyon Alapin ranks 70. Before him are Alexander Izvolsky, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Rudolf Stammler, Carl Peters, Eduardo Dato, and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes. After him are Wojciech Kossak, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Robert Kajanus, Giuseppe Martucci, and Booker T. Washington. Among people deceased in 1923, Semyon Alapin ranks 63. Before him are Alfred Edwards, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Kuroki Tamemoto, Louis Couperus, Fritz Mauthner, and Armen Garo. After him are Ernst Ziller, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Ruy Barbosa, Stojan Protić, Takeo Arishima, and Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Semyon Alapin ranks 1,092 out of 3,761. Before him are Hyacinth (1777), Angelina Beloff (1879), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Eduard Artemyev (1937), Stephen of Perm (1340), and Gevork Vartanian (1924). After him are Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Zinaida Yusupova (1861), Galina Zybina (1931), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), and Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800).

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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), Alexander Kotov (1913), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), and Olga Rubtsova (1909). After him are Alexander Petrov (1799), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), and Artur Yusupov (1960).

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