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Dawid Janowski

1868 - 1927

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Dawid Markelowicz Janowski [ˈd̪avʲit̪ ˈmaʁkəlɔvit͡ʂ ˈjanɔfski] (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled David) was a Polish chess player. Several opening variations are named after Janowski. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dawid Janowski is the 57th most popular chess player (up from 61st in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Dawid Janowski ranks 57 out of 461. Before him are Gioachino Greco, Yuri Averbakh, Mir Sultan Khan, Henry Bird, Lajos Portisch, and Andor Lilienthal. After him are Carl Schlechter, Géza Maróczy, Pedro Damiano, Salo Flohr, Mark Taimanov, and Legall de Kermeur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Dawid Janowski ranks 80. Before him are Ernst Linder, Fakhri Pasha, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Lin Sen, José Félix Uriburu, and Keisuke Okada. After him are Venceslau Brás, Mary Parker Follett, Arturo Alessandri, Aleksa Šantić, George Arliss, and Stanisław Przybyszewski. Among people deceased in 1927, Dawid Janowski ranks 49. Before him are Fritz Hofmann, Victorine Meurent, Robert Fuchs, Jonas Basanavičius, Mikhail Artsybashev, and Ahad Ha'am. After him are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Stanisław Przybyszewski, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hermann Abert, Louise Abbéma, and Vasily Polenov.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Dawid Janowski ranks 58 out of 368. Before him are Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Mikhail Borodin (1884), Otto Schmidt (1891), and Lew Sapieha (1557). After him are Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Abba Kovner (1918), Oscar Milosz (1877), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), Antoine Pevsner (1884), and Aleksander Chodźko (1804).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Dawid Janowski ranks 1. After him are Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Boris Gelfand (1968), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Ilya Smirin (1968), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Alexei Fedorov (1972), Yury Shulman (1975), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), and Sergei Azarov (1983).

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