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Larissa Volpert

1926 - 2017

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Larissa Ilinichna Volpert (Russian: Лариса Ильинична Вольперт; 30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017) was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist. She was a three-time Soviet women's chess champion (1954, 1958, and 1959). Born in Leningrad, she learned chess from her older brother and received chess instruction at the Leningrad Pioneers Palace. In 1947, she tied for first at the Leningrad Women's Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Larissa Volpert is the 217th most popular chess player (down from 209th in 2024), the 2,347th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,414th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Larissa Volpert ranks 217 out of 461. Before her are Levente Lengyel, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, John Owen, Anatoly Lein, and Paul Felix Schmidt. After her are Ruslan Ponomariov, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, John Nunn, Aleksandar Matanović, Roberto Grau, and Xie Jun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Larissa Volpert ranks 472. Before her are Joe Verdeur, Ernest Mühlen, Göta Pettersson, Moira Shearer, Noor Jehan, and Rawya Ateya. After her are Don Gordon, W. Michael Blumenthal, Peter Zadek, Paolo Magnani, Dorothy E. Smith, and George Ariyoshi. Among people deceased in 2017, Larissa Volpert ranks 529. Before her are Josef Augusta, Mario Tullio Montano, Bajram Rexhepi, Rob Gonsalves, Hugo Dollheiser, and Roger Smith. After her are Don Gordon, Lukas Ammann, Lars-Erik Skiöld, Charles Bradley, Roberta Peters, and Michele Scarponi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Larissa Volpert ranks 2,347 out of 3,761. Before her are Boris Gurevich (1931), Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), Vladimir Kara-Murza (1981), Andrei Kirilenko (1981), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), and Yelena Petushkova (1940). After her are Maria Lvova-Belova (1984), Lyudmila Andonova (1960), Elena Rybakina (1999), Kseniya Rappoport (1974), Ğäliäsğar Kamal (1879), and Valery Muratov (1946).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Larissa Volpert ranks 33. Before her are Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), Irina Levitina (1954), Gata Kamsky (1974), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), and Anatoly Lein (1931). After her are Yuri Balashov (1949), Alexander Morozevich (1977), Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (1957), Alexander Grischuk (1983), Lev Psakhis (1958), and Andrei Sokolov (1963).

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