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Leonid Shamkovich

1923 - 2005

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Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Shamkovich is the 198th most popular chess player (down from 196th in 2019), the 2,212th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,327th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 198 out of 461. Before him are Adolf Schwarz, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gulko, Amos Burn, Clarice Benini, and Max Weiss. After him are Carl Mayet, Jonathan Penrose, Fenny Heemskerk, Gyula Sax, Irina Levitina, and Isaac Kashdan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 407. Before him are Inge Keller, Tom M. Apostol, Haydée Santamaría, Eric Sykes, Ron Flockhart, and Antonio Siddi. After him are Herman Chernoff, Isaac Schwartz, Robert Sabatier, Percy Heath, Monica Lovinescu, and George Russell. Among people deceased in 2005, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 307. Before him are Miriam Rothschild, Raoul Bott, Humphrey Carpenter, Ismail Merchant, David Lange, and Hubert Curien. After him are Percy Heath, Faimalaga Luka, Lucky Thompson, Ruth Hussey, Henry Proctor, and Derek Bailey.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 2,212 out of 3,761. Before him are Chulpan Khamatova (1975), Vasily Perovsky (1795), Maria Golubnichaya (1924), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), Dmitry Nazarov (1957), and Vyacheslav Starshinov (1940). After him are Nikolai Budarin (1953), Yuli Raizman (1903), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Aleksei Paramonov (1925), and Vladimir Astapovsky (1946).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 28. Before him are Lev Alburt (1945), Artur Yusupov (1960), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), and Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990). After him are Irina Levitina (1954), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Anatoly Lein (1931), Larissa Volpert (1926), Yuri Balashov (1949), and Alexander Morozevich (1977).

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