CHESS PLAYER

Edgard Colle

1897 - 1932

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Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, in a strong field ahead of Esteban Canal; and won twice outright at Scarborough in 1927, and again in 1930, ahead of Maróczy and Rubinstein. Colle's playing career was cut short by ill health. He survived three difficult operations for a gastric ulcer and died after a fourth at the age of 34 in Ghent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgard Colle is the 147th most popular chess player (down from 120th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 620th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Edgard Colle ranks 147 out of 461Before him are Carlos Torre Repetto, Viacheslav Ragozin, Boris Kostić, Peter Romanovsky, Anna Muzychuk, and Henrique Mecking. After him are Chantal Chaudé de Silans, Boško Abramović, Hermann Pilnik, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Georg Marco, and Simen Agdestein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Edgard Colle ranks 236Before him are Martti Marttelin, Moe Howard, Nikolai Gikalo, Ville Pörhölä, Eduard Tisse, and Henri Frankfort. After him are Pixinguinha, Ossi Oswalda, Sabino Bilbao, Choʻlpon, Gregorio Fuentes, and Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer. Among people deceased in 1932, Edgard Colle ranks 115Before him are Ioannis Chrysafis, Eduard Sievers, Charles Winckler, Väinö Siikaniemi, Pritilata Waddedar, and Charles Wallace Richmond. After him are Frantz Reichel, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Ellen Churchill Semple, René Bazin, László Lukács, and Francisco Lagos Cházaro.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Edgard Colle ranks 650 out of 1,190Before him are René Desaeyere (1947), Jan Frans Willems (1793), Jules De Bisschop (1879), Victor Mees (1927), Joël Robert (1943), and Jules de Trooz (1857). After him are Aimé Haegeman (1861), Simon Leys (1935), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (1843), Gotye (1980), Jacques Beurlet (1944), and Patrick Nève (1949).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belgium

Among chess players born in Belgium, Edgard Colle ranks 1After him are George Koltanowski (1903).