CHESS PLAYER

Viktor Korchnoi

1931 - 2016

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Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Russian: Виктор Львович Корчной, IPA: [vʲiktər ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj]; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (USSR), Korchnoi defected to the Netherlands in 1976, and resided in Switzerland from 1978, becoming a Swiss citizen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Korchnoi has received more than 916,350 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Viktor Korchnoi is the 20th most popular chess player, the 303rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 331st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Chess Player.

Viktor Korchnoi is most famous for being a chess grandmaster and a three-time world chess champion.

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  • 62.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Viktor Korchnoi ranks 20 out of 461. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor, Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, and Ruy López de Segura. After him are Samuel Reshevsky, Judit Polgár, Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, Richard Réti, and Johannes Zukertort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Viktor Korchnoi ranks 57. Before him are Burton Richter, Jacques Demy, Faten Hamama, Lucia Bosè, James Earl Jones, and Klaus Hasselmann. After him are Ettore Scola, Stanislav Grof, Sofia Gubaidulina, Syukuro Manabe, Ivan Rebroff, and Arata Isozaki. Among people deceased in 2016, Viktor Korchnoi ranks 54. Before him are Michael Cimino, Michel Galabru, Ahmed Zewail, Michèle Morgan, George Gaynes, and Junko Tabei. After him are Ettore Scola, Harry Kroto, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Reinhard Selten, and Patricio Aylwin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Korchnoi ranks 303 out of 3,761. Before him are Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Sergei Skripal (1951), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), and Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937). After him are Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), and Alexander Yegorov (1883).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Viktor Korchnoi ranks 6. Before him are Alexander Alekhine (1892), Boris Spassky (1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), and Vasily Smyslov (1921). After him are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913).

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