CHESS PLAYER

Yuri Averbakh

1922 - 2022

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Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (Russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenarian FIDE Grandmaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Averbakh has received more than 223,617 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yuri Averbakh is the 43rd most popular chess player (down from 33rd in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Russia (down from 548th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 56.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Yuri Averbakh ranks 43 out of 461. Before him are Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, Efim Bogoljubov, Howard Staunton, László Szabó, and Svetozar Gligorić. After him are Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alessandro Salvio, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, Rudolf Spielmann, and Joseph Henry Blackburne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yuri Averbakh ranks 129. Before him are Guy Thys, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Juan Antonio Bardem, Pierre Hadot, Alexander Zinoviev, and Taro Kagawa. After him are Ivry Gitlis, Luis Somoza Debayle, Gershon Kingsley, Cyd Charisse, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and András Hegedüs. Among people deceased in 2022, Yuri Averbakh ranks 132. Before him are Uri Orlev, Mario Terán, Christos Sartzetakis, Alain Tanner, Tony Sirico, and Piet Schrijvers. After him are Fernando Gomes, Kay Parker, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Joachim Streich, Nick Holonyak, and Juris Hartmanis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Averbakh ranks 708 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908), Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (1860), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Yegor Ligachyov (1920), and Vladimir of Novgorod (1020). After him are Yevdokiya Mekshilo (1931), Lev Rudnev (1885), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Vera Krepkina (1933), Chaim Rumkowski (1877), and Alexander Fadeyev (1901).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Yuri Averbakh ranks 10. Before him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), and Vera Menchik (1906). After him are Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Olga Rubtsova (1909), and Semyon Alapin (1856).

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