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David Bronstein

1924 - 2006

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David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics. He was also a renowned chess writer; his book Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 is widely considered one of the greatest chess books ever written. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Bronstein is the 33rd most popular chess player (down from 27th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 181st in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

David Bronstein is most famous for his victory over Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1951 World Chess Championship.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, David Bronstein ranks 33 out of 461. Before him are Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, Richard Réti, and Miguel Najdorf. After him are Efim Bogoljubov, Susan Polgár, Vassily Ivanchuk, Savielly Tartakower, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Bent Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, David Bronstein ranks 81. Before him are Tomiichi Murayama, Moktar Ould Daddah, Black Dahlia, Torsten Wiesel, Ephraim Kishon, and Sabu Dastagir. After him are Kenneth Waltz, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Roza Shanina, Sverre Fehn, Bulat Okudzhava, and James Baldwin. Among people deceased in 2006, David Bronstein ranks 66. Before him are Mariska Veres, Glenn Ford, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Jack Warden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Telê Santana. After him are Shamil Basayev, Shohei Imamura, Sven Nykvist, William Styron, Joachim Fest, and Rudolf Vrba.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, David Bronstein ranks 180 out of 1,365. Before him are Jacob Frank (1726), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), and Otto Preminger (1905). After him are Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), and Catherine Dolgorukov (1847).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, David Bronstein ranks 1. After him are Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Vassily Ivanchuk (1969), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Salo Flohr (1908), Mark Taimanov (1926), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Leonid Stein (1934), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Anna Muzychuk (1990), and Georg Marco (1863).

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