CHESS PLAYER

Vladimirs Petrovs

1907 - 1943

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Vladimirs Petrovs (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петро́в, romanized: Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov; 27 September 1908 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian Russian chess player. He was born in Riga, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia). Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimirs Petrovs has received more than 30,813 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimirs Petrovs is the 194th most popular chess player (down from 181st in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 160th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Vladimirs Petrovs has had the most page views in the with 3,324 views, followed by Russian (1,636), and Latvian (974). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (95.58%), Vietnamese (29.48%), and Norwegian (Nynorsk) (28.78%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vladimirs Petrovs ranks 194 out of 461. Before him are Arnold Denker, Xie Jun, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, and Vitaly Tseshkovsky. After him are Jonathan Penrose, Leonid Shamkovich, Nick de Firmian, Isaac Kashdan, Gyula Sax, and Nana Ioseliani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Vladimirs Petrovs ranks 353. Before him are Quiterio Olmedo, Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Grahame Clark, Toni Frissell, Art Babbitt, and Albert Ammons. After him are Johnny Moss, Aldo Donelli, Isabel Jewell, Roy Welensky, Jean Louis, and Klaes Karppinen. Among people deceased in 1943, Vladimirs Petrovs ranks 216. Before him are James Ewing, José Gil Fortoul, Ladislav Vácha, Frits Kuipers, Reginald McKenna, and Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf. After him are Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Leonhard Stejneger, Artur Knautz, Helena Nordheim, Anna Dresden-Polak, and Herbert Roper Barrett.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vladimirs Petrovs ranks 185 out of 323. Before him are Ursula Donath (1931), Juris Alunāns (1832), Aigars Kalvītis (1966), Alexei Shirov (1972), Juris Silovs (1950), and Vija Celmins (1938). After him are Aleksandrs Starkovs (1955), Daina Taimiņa (1954), George Gulack (1905), Jānis Akuraters (1876), Māris Gailis (1951), and Inese Vaidere (1952).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Latvia

Among chess players born in Latvia, Vladimirs Petrovs ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Tal (1936), Hermanis Matisons (1894), and Alexei Shirov (1972). After him are Arkadij Naiditsch (1985), Dana Reizniece-Ozola (1981), and Alexander Shabalov (1967).

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