CHESS PLAYER

Aleksandar Matanović

1930 - 2023

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Aleksandar Matanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Матановић; 23 May 1930 – 9 August 2023) was a Serbian chess grandmaster, one of the leading Yugoslav players in the 1950s-1970s. In 1966 he founded the company Chess Informant, which publishes regular game collections from recent major tournaments and the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandar Matanović is the 220th most popular chess player (down from 58th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 136th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Aleksandar Matanović ranks 220 out of 461. Before him are Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Larissa Volpert, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, and John Nunn. After him are Roberto Grau, Xie Jun, Viktor Kupreichik, Tony Miles, Anna Ushenina, and Pentala Harikrishna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Aleksandar Matanović ranks 561. Before him are Dolores Huerta, Ian Burgess, George Fernandes, Stanley Sadie, Roberta Peters, and Vladimir Ryzhkin. After him are Guillermo Díaz, Allan Williams, Bertha Brouwer, Conn Findlay, Jim Nabors, and Maureen Forrester. Among people deceased in 2023, Aleksandar Matanović ranks 488. Before him are Inga Swenson, Cēzars Ozers, Walter Mirisch, Paolo Magnani, Mariya Pisareva, and David Del Tredici. After him are Charlie Dominici, John Jakes, Traudl Hecher, Terence Davies, Manfred Schaefer, and Hossein Shahabi.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Aleksandar Matanović ranks 336 out of 661. Before him are Momčilo Vukotić (1950), Nenad Đorđević (1979), Nenad Stekić (1951), Branka Katić (1970), Bebi Dol (1962), and Nadja Regin (1931). After him are Branislav Hrnjiček (1908), Uroš Marović (1946), Teofilo Spasojević (1909), Maja Gojković (1963), Vlada Avramov (1979), and Dejan Ajdačić (1959).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Aleksandar Matanović ranks 8. Before him are Svetozar Gligorić (1923), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Peter Leko (1979), Boris Kostić (1887), Boško Abramović (1951), and Milunka Lazarević (1932). After him are Andrija Fuderer (1931).

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