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Jean Dufresne

1829 - 1893

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Jean Dufresne (14 February 1829 – 13 April 1893) was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, to whom he lost the "Evergreen game" in 1852. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Dufresne is the 104th most popular chess player (down from 86th in 2019), the 3,888th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,665th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Jean Dufresne ranks 104 out of 461Before him are Jackson Showalter, Robert Byrne, Richard Teichmann, Mišo Cebalo, Alexander Khalifman, and Israel Albert Horowitz. After him are Ignatz Kolisch, Alexander Petrov, Jacques Mieses, André Chéron, Veselin Topalov, and Philipp Stamma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Jean Dufresne ranks 53Before him are Edmond Albius, Ludvig Lorenz, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Carl Schurz, Suzanne Manet, and Charles Walter De Vis. After him are Lester Allan Pelton, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Laura Bridgman, José López Domínguez, and Mikayel Nalbandian. Among people deceased in 1893, Jean Dufresne ranks 57Before him are Concepción Arenal, Arabo, Georgi Pulevski, John Abbott, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, and Robert Cornelius. After him are Grigory Gagarin, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, Adolphe Yvon, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Michał Elwiro Andriolli, and Victor Schœlcher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jean Dufresne ranks 3,890 out of 7,253Before him are Wolfgang Becker (1954), Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Erich Marcks (1891), Per Mertesacker (1984), Julian Draxler (1993), and Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708). After him are Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe (1852), Walter Noddack (1893), Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), and Uwe Bein (1960).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Jean Dufresne ranks 4Before him are Robert Hübner (1948), Louis Paulsen (1833), and Friedrich Sämisch (1896). After him are Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Sonja Graf (1908), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), and Boris Gulko (1947).