CHESS PLAYER

Wolfgang Uhlmann

1935 - 2020

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Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Uhlmann has received more than 68,517 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Uhlmann is the 105th most popular chess player (up from 117th in 2019), the 4,278th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,907th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 105 out of 461. Before him are Ossip Bernstein, Igor Bondarevsky, András Adorján, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Alexander Khalifman, and Peter Romanovsky. After him are Richard Teichmann, Leonid Stein, Petar Trifunović, William Lombardy, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, and Ljubomir Ljubojević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 300. Before him are Don McCullin, Barbara Harris, Rosenda Monteros, Géza Alföldy, Alfrēds Rubiks, and Sandy Koufax. After him are José Ramos Delgado, María Galiana, Noriko Ohara, Anne Treisman, Fortunato Baldelli, and Sultan Ali Keshtmand. Among people deceased in 2020, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 361. Before him are Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Hau Pei-tsun, Maria Itkina, Martin Birch, Ahmed Laraki, and Yuri Bondarev. After him are John D. Barrow, Gergely Kulcsár, Jerry Sloan, Gudrun Pausewang, Jan Myrdal, and Giorgi Shengelaia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 4,278 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Günther Herrmann (1939), Burkhard Heim (1925), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Paul Bekker (1882), and Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747). After him are Ferdinand Keller (1842), Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim (1198), Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1754), Ute Lemper (1963), Franz Babinger (1891), and Friedrich, Prince of Wied (1872).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 6. Before him are Louis Paulsen (1833), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Robert Hübner (1948), Jean Dufresne (1829), and Jacques Mieses (1865). After him are Sonja Graf (1908), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), and Hermann Pilnik (1914).

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