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Wolfgang Unzicker

1925 - 2006

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Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the "world champion of amateurs". Unzicker was born in Pirmasens, a small town near Kaiserslautern in the province of Rhineland-Palatinate noted for shoemaking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Unzicker has received more than 39,453 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Unzicker is the 122nd most popular chess player (down from 121st in 2019), the 4,536th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,942nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 122 out of 461. Before him are Daniel Harrwitz, Jackson Showalter, Alexander McDonnell, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Edgard Colle, and Gedeon Barcza. After him are Erich Eliskases, Boris Gelfand, Arturo Pomar, Oscar Panno, Vladas Mikėnas, and Esteban Canal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 340. Before him are James Salter, Iwao Takamoto, Armand Razafindratandra, James Mellaart, Medgar Evers, and Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas. After him are Klara Luchko, Antonio Puchades, Gunther Schuller, Dany Dauberson, Vladimir Shainsky, and John List. Among people deceased in 2006, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 235. Before him are Ted Grant, Carlo Acutis, Mirko Marjanović, Imrich Stacho, Maxi Herber, and Don Thompson. After him are Gösta Löfgren, Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Jaroslav Pelikan, Ferenc Machos, Ondina Valla, and Candy Barr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 4,536 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Erik Spiekermann (1947), Alwin Mittasch (1869), Sheryl Lee (1967), and Andreas Krieger (1965). After him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Leonard Nelson (1882), Natja Brunckhorst (1966), Saul Rubinek (1948), Carl Locher (1851), and Harry Rosenbusch (1836).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 9. Before him are Robert Hübner (1948), Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Sonja Graf (1908), and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818). After him are Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Boris Gulko (1947), Aaron Alexandre (1766), and Natalia Zhukova (1979).

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