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Aron Nimzowitsch

1886 - 1935

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Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: Ārons Nimcovičs; Russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927). Nimzowitsch's seminal work Chess Praxis, originally published in German in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion Tigran Petrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aron Nimzowitsch is the 885th most popular writer (up from 988th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Writer.

Aron Nimzowitsch is most famous for his "Theory of the Endgame" which was published in his book "My System".

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Among writers, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 885 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura de Noves, Danilo Kiš, Varlam Shalamov, James May, Shoko Asahara, and Appius Claudius Caecus. After him are Robert E. Howard, Ian McEwan, Marie Mancini, Zenodotus, Chevalier d'Éon, and Kang Youwei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 37. Before him are Hugo Ball, Michael Curtiz, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Kurt Koffka, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and George Mallory. After him are Marcel Dupré, Henri Coandă, Dong Biwu, Paul Tillich, G. I. Taylor, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Among people deceased in 1935, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 28. Before him are Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Jane Addams, Komitas, Josef Suk, Max Liebermann, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. After him are Henri Pirenne, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Hugo Junkers, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Mihajlo Pupin, and Panait Istrati.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 12 out of 323. Before him are Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), and Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717). After him are Gidon Kremer (1947), Jacob Kettler (1610), Andris Bērziņš (1944), Herberts Cukurs (1900), Vera Mukhina (1889), and Peter von Biron (1724).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 1. After him are Rainis (1865), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Vilis Lācis (1904), Vizma Belševica (1931), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), and Krišjānis Barons (1835).

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