CHESS PLAYER

Albin Planinc

1944 - 2008

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Albin Planinc (also spelled Planinec) (18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) was a Slovenian-Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster. He was born in a working-class family in Briše near Zagorje in the Central Sava Valley, in German-occupied Slovenia. Planinc won the Slovenian youth championship in 1962. He also won the full Slovenian Chess Championship in 1968 and 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albin Planinc is the 181st most popular chess player, the 110th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 115th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovene Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Albin Planinc ranks 181 out of 461. Before him are Klaus Junge, Oleg Romanishin, Hikaru Nakamura, Giambattista Lolli, Boris Verlinsky, and Lubomir Kavalek. After him are Serafino Dubois, Endre Steiner, Ratmir Kholmov, Lajos Asztalos, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, and Nick de Firmian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Albin Planinc ranks 568. Before him are Dick Durbin, Kitty Winn, Dejan Dabović, Michael Franks, Lew Rockwell, and Nelson Acosta. After him are Pierre Trentin, Férid Boughedir, Christoph Hein, Ben Stein, Elmar Wepper, and Gunhild Hoffmeister. Among people deceased in 2008, Albin Planinc ranks 291. Before him are Anatoly Karatsuba, Erwin Geschonneck, Rafael Azcona, Françoise Demulder, Avery Dulles, and Omar Caetano. After him are Antonio José González Zumárraga, Jesse Helms, Mira Alečković, Rudolf Illovszky, Philip Agee, and Neal Hefti.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Albin Planinc ranks 110 out of 340. Before him are Eva Sršen (1951), Marko Elsner (1960), Slavko Vinčić (1979), Aloysius Ambrozic (1930), Giovanni Delise (1907), and Zofka Kveder (1878). After him are Dimitrij Rupel (1946), Maksimilijan Mihelčič (1905), Josip Jurčič (1844), Josipina Turnograjska (1833), Fran Saleški Finžgar (1871), and Rasho Nesterović (1976).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovenia

Among chess players born in Slovenia, Albin Planinc ranks 3. Before him are Milan Vidmar (1885), and Vasja Pirc (1907).

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