CHESS PLAYER

Svetozar Gligorić

1923 - 2012

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Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia and Yugoslavia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetozar Gligorić has received more than 144,385 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Svetozar Gligorić is the 42nd most popular chess player (up from 43rd in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 98th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 42 out of 461. Before him are Gioachino Greco, Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, Efim Bogoljubov, Howard Staunton, and László Szabó. After him are Yuri Averbakh, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alessandro Salvio, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, and Rudolf Spielmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 113. Before him are Irvin Kershner, Walerian Borowczyk, Stig Dagerman, Alexandre Astruc, Loriot, and Charles Durning. After him are Dimitrios Ioannidis, Igor Shafarevich, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Ziba Ganiyeva, Andrés Rodríguez, and Gloria Grahame. Among people deceased in 2012, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 107. Before him are Nora Ephron, Carlo Maria Martini, Scott McKenzie, Gitta Sereny, Charles Durning, and Félix Miélli Venerando. After him are Bal Thackeray, Sergio Pininfarina, Kaneto Shindo, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Malam Bacai Sanhá, and Dorothea Tanning.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 116 out of 661. Before him are Ana Brnabić (1975), Svetozar Marković (1846), Monica Seles (1973), Dimitrije Ljotić (1891), Mutimir of Serbia (830), and Vlastimir (805). After him are Nemanja Vidić (1981), Ilija Garašanin (1812), Jovan Divjak (1937), Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia (1447), Tommy Lapid (1931), and Stefan Branković (1417).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Svetozar Gligorić ranks 1. After him are Aleksandar Matanović (1930), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Boris Kostić (1887), Borislav Ivkov (1933), Andrija Fuderer (1931), Milunka Lazarević (1932), Boško Abramović (1951), and Peter Leko (1979).

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