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Mikhail Botvinnik

1911 - 1995

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Michail Moissejewitsch Botwinnik (russisch Михаил Моисеевич Ботвинник, wiss. Transliteration Michail Moiseevič Botvinnik) (* 4. Augustjul. / 17. Mehr auf Wikipedia lesen

His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2024). Mikhail Botvinnik is the 8th most popular schachspieler, the 108th most popular biography from Russia (up from 126th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Schachspieler.

Mikhail Botvinnik is most famous for being the first world chess champion from the Soviet Union.

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Among Schachspielers

Among schachspielers, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 8 out of 461. Before him are Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, José Raúl Capablanca, Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, and Emanuel Lasker. After him are Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, Garry Kasparov, Vasily Smyslov, and François-André Danican Philidor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 15. Before him are Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, Czesław Miłosz, Nino Rota, and William Golding. After him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Louise Bourgeois, Milovan Đilas, William Howard Stein, Robert Taylor, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Among people deceased in 1995, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 11. Before him are Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Eugene Wigner, and Hannes Alfvén. After him are Maurizio Gucci, Michael Ende, Milovan Đilas, Gunnar Nordahl, Dean Martin, and Gerald Durrell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 108 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Alekhine (1892), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895). After him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), and Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961).

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Among Schachspielers In Russia

Among schachspielers born in Russia, Mikhail Botvinnik ranks 3. Before him are Boris Spassky (1937), and Alexander Alekhine (1892). After him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Vera Menchik (1906), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Yuri Averbakh (1922), and Andor Lilienthal (1911).

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