1922 - 2022
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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Among chess players, Yuri Averbakh ranks 33 out of 374. Before 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.
1976 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 27
1887 - 1956
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 28
1475 - 1530
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 29
1842 - 1888
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 30
1935 - 2010
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 31
1850 - 1908
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 32
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 33
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 34
1933 - 2022
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 35
1590 - 1630
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 36
1889 - 1952
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 37
1542 - 1597
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 38
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 39
Among people born in 1922, Yuri Averbakh ranks 95. Before 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 98. Before 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.
1922 - 1984
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 89
1922 - 2004
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 90
1922 - 2008
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 91
1922 - 2015
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 92
1922 - 2007
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 93
1922 - 1950
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 94
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 95
1922 - 2000
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 96
1922 - 2006
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 97
1922 - 1990
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 98
1922 - 2018
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 99
1922 - 2010
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 100
1922 - 1987
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 101
1940 - 2022
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 92
1946 - 2022
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 93
1947 - 2022
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 94
1932 - 2022
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 95
1938 - 2022
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 96
1939 - 2022
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 97
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 98
1941 - 2022
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 99
1933 - 2022
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 100
1967 - 2022
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 101
1948 - 2022
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 102
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 103
1951 - 2022
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 104
Among people born in Russia, Yuri Averbakh ranks 549 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 543
1883 - 1954
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 544
1914 - 1955
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 545
1888 - 1940
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 546
1896 - 1978
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 547
1282 - 1287
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 548
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 549
1843 - 1882
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 550
1839 - 1915
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 551
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 552
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 553
1904 - 1964
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 554
1931 - 2004
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 555
Among chess players born in Russia, Yuri Averbakh ranks 10. Before 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).
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 4
1921 - 2010
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 5
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 6
1906 - 1944
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 7
1887 - 1956
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 8
1850 - 1908
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 9
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 10
1911 - 2010
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 11
1913 - 1989
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 12
1909 - 1994
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 13
1975 - Present
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 14
1913 - 1981
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 15
1856 - 1923
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 16