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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 36,452 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Unzicker is the 121st most popular chess player (down from 120th in 2019), the 3,953rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,580th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 121 out of 374Before him are Boris Kostić, Alexander McDonnell, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. After him are Boško Abramović, Alexander Khalifman, Genrikh Kasparyan, Viacheslav Ragozin, Ljubomir Ljubojević, and Daniel Harrwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 292Before him are Maria Tallchief, John Tate, Peter R. Hunt, Henri Oreiller, Marlen Khutsiev, and Brent Scowcroft. After him are Justus Dahinden, Raymond Impanis, Hermano da Silva Ramos, Anne Jackson, Alberto Grimaldi, and Roberto Juarroz. Among people deceased in 2006, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 211Before him are Betty Curtis, Paul Arizin, Lou Rawls, André Schwarz-Bart, Rajkumar, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. After him are Alvin M. Weinberg, Candy Barr, Imrich Stacho, Elton Dean, Hilde Domin, and Suzan Kahramaner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 3,953 out of 6,142Before him are Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Bernd Schneider (1973), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), and Emanuel Geibel (1815). After him are Eberhard Vogel (1943), Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801), Peter Struck (1943), Iris Berben (1950), Albert Richter (1912), and Rudolf Kittel (1853).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 8Before him are Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Robert Hübner (1948), Jacques Mieses (1865), Jean Dufresne (1829), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), and Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935). After him are Sonja Graf (1908), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), Boris Gulko (1947), and Natalia Zhukova (1979).