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Lev Alburt

1945 - Today

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Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is an American chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Alburt is the 162nd most popular chess player (down from 143rd in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,930th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lev Alburt ranks 162 out of 461. Before him are Sofia Polgár, Rafael Vaganian, Nicolas Rossolimo, William Lombardy, Johann Berger, and Gedeon Barcza. After him are István Bilek, Milunka Lazarević, Kira Zvorykina, Bernhard Horwitz, Horatio Caro, and Artur Yusupov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Lev Alburt ranks 471. Before him are Peter Pace, José Luis Romero, Sylvia Vrethammar, Manuel Duarte, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, and Mats Wahl. After him are Betty Stöve, Loni Anderson, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, Anne Murray, John H. Coates, and Frank Hansen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Alburt ranks 1,918 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Eshpai (1925), Oleg Menshikov (1960), Nikolay Umov (1846), Anahit Tsitsikian (1926), Alexander Kalyagin (1942), and Ramazan Abdulatipov (1946). After him are Nikolai Panin (1872), Natalia Molchanova (1962), Konstantin Yuon (1875), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), and Nikolay Milyutin (1818).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Lev Alburt ranks 22. Before him are Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Alexander Petrov (1799), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), and Peter Romanovsky (1892). After him are Artur Yusupov (1960), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), and Leonid Shamkovich (1923).

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