CHESS PLAYER

Grigory Levenfish

1889 - 1961

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Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Левенфи́ш; 19 March 1889 [O.S. 7 March] – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion, in 1934 (jointly with Ilya Rabinovich) and 1937. In 1937 he drew a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. In 1950 Levenfish was among the first recipients of the title of Grandmaster, awarded by FIDE that year for the first time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Levenfish is the 111th most popular chess player (down from 94th in 2019), the 852nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 820th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Grigory Levenfish ranks 111 out of 461. Before him are Ignatz Kolisch, Alexander Petrov, Jacques Mieses, André Chéron, Veselin Topalov, and Philipp Stamma. After him are Vasja Pirc, Peter Leko, Erich Eliskases, Oscar Panno, Ernst Grünfeld, and Igor Bondarevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Grigory Levenfish ranks 188. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Otto Tief, Otto Deßloch, Heinrich Campendonk, Hans Felber, and Alfonso Reyes. After him are Emma Asson, Gottfried Fuchs, Zofia Zamenhof, Georg Schrimpf, Erick-Oskar Hansen, and Ronald Fairbairn. Among people deceased in 1961, Grigory Levenfish ranks 118. Before him are Marion Davies, Charles D. B. King, Barry Fitzgerald, Platt Adams, Belinda Lee, and Nadezhda Udaltsova. After him are Joseph Orbeli, Géza von Bolváry, Richmond K. Turner, James Thurber, Ruth Fischer, and Kiyotake Kawaguchi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 852 out of 1,694. Before him are Marek Belka (1952), Wojciech Bogusławski (1757), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), Nikifor (1895), Alfred Kerr (1867), and Jan Kott (1914). After him are Gustav Radde (1831), Max Berg (1870), Julius Hübner (1806), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Jurek Becker (1937), and Zacharias Ursinus (1534).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 10. Before him are Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), and Edward Lasker (1885). After him are Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Valery Salov (1964), Monika Soćko (1978), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (1998), Radosław Wojtaszek (1987), and Bartosz Soćko (1978).

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