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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 211,778 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Yuri Averbakh is the 33rd most popular chess player (up from 53rd in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from Russia (up from 745th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Yuri Averbakh ranks 33 out of 374Before him are Judit Polgár, Savielly Tartakower, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Johannes Zukertort, Bent Larsen, and Mikhail Chigorin. After him are David Bronstein, Borislav Ivkov, Gioachino Greco, Efim Bogoljubov, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, and László Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yuri Averbakh ranks 95Before him are Fikret Amirov, Serge Reggiani, Paul Scofield, Árpád Göncz, Yvonne De Carlo, and Salvatore Giuliano. After him are Jean-Pierre Rampal, Paul Marcinkus, Hussein Onn, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and Alistair MacLean. Among people deceased in 2022, Yuri Averbakh ranks 98Before him are Saul Kripke, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Klaus Schulze, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Jean-Claude Mézières, and Ruggero Deodato. After him are David Warner, Borislav Ivkov, Mino Raiola, Ichirou Mizuki, Richard Leakey, and Javier Marías.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Averbakh ranks 549 out of 3,262Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Nicolas de Staël (1914), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), and Tode Mongke (1282). After him are Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), and Nikolai Chernykh (1931).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

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