CHESS PLAYER

Lev Polugaevsky

1934 - 1995

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Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA: [pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Polugaevsky is the 75th most popular chess player, the 81st most popular biography from Belarus (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 75 out of 461. Before him are Magnus Carlsen, Michael Adams, Isaac Boleslavsky, Lionel Kieseritzky, Nana Alexandria, and Rudolf Spielmann. After him are Szymon Winawer, Alexander Kotov, Semyon Alapin, Elisaveta Bykova, Levon Aronian, and Maia Chiburdanidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 190. Before him are Elgin Baylor, Maureen Connolly, Eva Mozes Kor, Steve Lacy, Fou Ts'ong, and Giancarlo Baghetti. After him are Luis Héctor Villalba, Maria Carta, Vasily Lanovoy, Carmelo Simeone, Ronald Inglehart, and Waldo Machado. Among people deceased in 1995, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 121. Before him are Luis Regueiro, Viktoria Brezhneva, Józef Maria Bocheński, Sergio Bertoni, Giancarlo Baghetti, and Heinrich Sutermeister. After him are Viveca Lindfors, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Madge Sinclair, Werner Liebrich, Khalid Bakdash, and Abdul Ali Mazari.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 81 out of 368. Before him are Sergei Aleinikov (1961), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Jan Czerski (1845), Simon Dubnow (1860), Czesław Niemen (1939), and Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876). After him are Napoleon Orda (1807), Ivan Yarkovsky (1844), Ivonka Survilla (1936), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Issai Schur (1875), and Ales Adamovich (1927).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 2. Before him are Dawid Janowski (1868). After him are Boris Gelfand (1968), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Ilya Smirin (1968), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Alexei Fedorov (1972), Yury Shulman (1975), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), and Sergei Azarov (1983).

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