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Vlastimil Hort

1944 - Today

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Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak and later German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship, but never qualified for a competition for the actual title. Hort was born in Kladno, Czechoslovakia and was a citizen of Czechoslovakia for the first part of his chess career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vlastimil Hort has received more than 69,797 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Vlastimil Hort is the 70th most popular chess player (up from 85th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 415th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Chess Player.

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  • 22

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  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vlastimil Hort ranks 70 out of 461. Before him are Vladimir Kramnik, Olga Rubtsova, Szymon Winawer, Semyon Alapin, Isaac Boleslavsky, and Michael Adams. After him are Louis Paulsen, Edward Lasker, Pal Benko, Philipp Stamma, Lev Polugaevsky, and Adolf Albin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Vlastimil Hort ranks 292. Before him are Sandra Faber, Boris Mikhailov, Jerry Springer, Pedro Barreto, Gladys Knight, and Han Myeong-sook. After him are Lars Norén, Catherine Schell, Alex Metreveli, Sigiswald Kuijken, Jim Gray, and Abdulah Sidran.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vlastimil Hort ranks 377 out of 1,200. Before him are August von Gödrich (1859), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Ladislav Adamec (1926), Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), and Georg Flegel (1566). After him are Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Alfred Neubauer (1891), Aleš Hrdlička (1869), Jan Zajíc (1950), and Saul Friedländer (1932).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among chess players born in Czechia, Vlastimil Hort ranks 2. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz (1836). After him are Rudolf Charousek (1873), Luděk Pachman (1924), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), Miroslav Filip (1928), Lubomir Kavalek (1943), Jana Bellin (1947), and David Navara (1985).

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