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Vasja Pirc

1907 - 1980

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Vasja Pirc ( PEERTS; Slovene pronunciation: [ˈʋâːsja ˈpîːɾt͡s]) (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a Yugoslav chess player. He is best known in competitive chess circles as a strong exponent of the hypermodern defense now generally known as the Pirc Defence. Pirc was champion of Yugoslavia five times: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1951, and 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasja Pirc has received more than 66,856 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasja Pirc is the 106th most popular chess player (up from 115th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 61st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovene Chess Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vasja Pirc ranks 106 out of 374. Before him are Michael Adams, Ernst Falkbeer, Peter Romanovsky, Erich Eliskases, Jonathan Penrose, and Edgard Colle. After him are Richard Teichmann, Georg Marco, Petar Trifunović, Igor Bondarevsky, William Lombardy, and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Vasja Pirc ranks 214. Before him are Edmond Delfour, Amir Sjarifuddin, Jean Langlais, Martti Miettunen, Đuro Kurepa, and Émile Veinante. After him are Benjamin Sheares, Anton Schall, Lydia Chukovskaya, Paula Wessely, Alexander Knox, and Georges Speicher. Among people deceased in 1980, Vasja Pirc ranks 173. Before him are Rostislav Alexeyev, Simonne Mathieu, André Parrot, Arend Heyting, George Pal, and Joseph Banks Rhine. After him are Sanjay Gandhi, Rafael Paasio, Petar Trifunović, Philip Guston, Wilhelmina Cooper, and Andrija Anković.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Vasja Pirc ranks 69 out of 295. Before him are Ivo Daneu (1937), Samir Handanović (1984), Lojze Peterle (1948), Valentin Vodnik (1758), Adam Bohorič (1520), and Bojan Križaj (1957). After him are Miroslav Cerar (1939), Berta Ambrož (1944), Rihard Jakopič (1869), Željko Ivanek (1957), Andrej Bajuk (1943), and Fran Levstik (1831).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovenia

Among chess players born in Slovenia, Vasja Pirc ranks 2. Before him are Milan Vidmar (1885). After him are Albin Planinc (1944).

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