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Legall de Kermeur

1702 - 1792

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François Antoine de Legall de Kermeur (1702–1792) was a French chess player, and was possibly the world's best player from about 1730 to 1755. His name is variously written Kermur, Sire de Legalle, by Twiss, and Kermur and Kermuy, Sire de Legal, by others. In the List of Subscribers to Philidor's second edition it stands as in Twiss, but the spelling was, probably, in both cases Philidor's own. Along with other famous players, he played in Paris's Café de la Régence, and is considered to have been possibly the strongest player in the world around the 1730s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Legall de Kermeur is the 63rd most popular chess player (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,527th most popular biography from France (down from 2,120th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Legall de Kermeur ranks 63 out of 461. Before him are Dawid Janowski, Carl Schlechter, Géza Maróczy, Pedro Damiano, Salo Flohr, and Mark Taimanov. After him are Joseph Henry Blackburne, Milan Vidmar, Svetozar Gligorić, Alessandro Salvio, Isidor Gunsberg, and Magnus Carlsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Legall de Kermeur ranks 7. Before him are Muhammad Shah, Anne Bonny, Emperor Nakamikado, Thomas Bayes, Jean-Étienne Liotard, and Maria Clementina Sobieska. After him are Francesco Zuccarelli, Enrichetta d'Este, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Jacques Aved, and Sava Petrović. Among people deceased in 1792, Legall de Kermeur ranks 22. Before him are Joseph Martin Kraus, Denis Fonvizin, Robert Adam, Jacques Cazotte, Nguyễn Huệ, and Johann Andreas Stein. After him are Maximilian Hell, Antonio Rosetti, Antoine Louis, John Smeaton, Yazid of Morocco, and Adam Gottlob Moltke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Legall de Kermeur ranks 2,527 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Jean Wahl (1888), Marius Jacob (1879), Catherine of Burgundy (1378), Renaud de Vichiers (1198), and Jean Prouvé (1901). After him are Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846), Jacques Doriot (1898), Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (1676), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), and Jean François de Troy (1679).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In France

Among chess players born in France, Legall de Kermeur ranks 2. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor (1726). After him are Pal Benko (1928), André Chéron (1895), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1990), Étienne Bacrot (1983), Laurent Fressinet (1981), and Marie Sebag (1986).

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