CHESS PLAYER

Akiba Rubinstein

1880 - 1961

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Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandmaster in 1950, at its inauguration. In his youth, he defeated top players José Raúl Capablanca and Carl Schlechter and was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship in 1914, but it was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. He was unable to re-create consistently the same form after the war, and his later life was plagued by mental illness. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akiba Rubinstein is the 27th most popular chess player (down from 24th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 247th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 27 out of 461Before him are Viktor Korchnoi, Ruy López de Segura, Samuel Reshevsky, Siegbert Tarrasch, Judit Polgár, and Vera Menchik. After him are Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, Richard Réti, Miguel Najdorf, and David Bronstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 42Before him are Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Álvaro Obregón, Sarah Knauss, Giuseppe Moscati, and Andrei Bely. After him are Lionel Logue, Otto Meissner, Archie Hahn, Adam Czerniaków, Mack Sennett, and María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. Among people deceased in 1961, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 26Before him are Kurt Meyer, Adnan Menderes, Dashiell Hammett, Sergio Osmeña, Luigi Einaudi, and Paul Landowski. After him are Blaise Cendrars, Wolfgang von Trips, Arthur Drewry, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Jeff Chandler, and Paul Wittgenstein.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 252 out of 1,694Before him are Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Otto von Below (1857), Hans Modrow (1928), and Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919). After him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Itzhak Stern (1901), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 5Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), and Siegbert Tarrasch (1862). After him are Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).