CHESS PLAYER

Lubomir Kavalek

1943 - 2021

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Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (Czech: Lubomír Kaválek, August 9, 1943 – January 18, 2021) was a Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965. He won two Czechoslovak and three U.S. championships, and was ranked as the world's No. 10 player in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lubomir Kavalek is the 180th most popular chess player (down from 156th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 673rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lubomir Kavalek ranks 180 out of 461. Before him are Gennadi Sosonko, Klaus Junge, Oleg Romanishin, Hikaru Nakamura, Giambattista Lolli, and Boris Verlinsky. After him are Albin Planinc, Serafino Dubois, Endre Steiner, Ratmir Kholmov, Lajos Asztalos, and Vitaly Tseshkovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Lubomir Kavalek ranks 551. Before him are Pedro Pablo León, Isabel-Clara Simó, Tanuja, Kiril Dojčinovski, Ahmed Sofa, and Frank Shu. After him are Kurt Helmudt, Peter Del Monte, Xaviera Hollander, Walter Murch, Cosimo Pinto, and Dieter Kottysch. Among people deceased in 2021, Lubomir Kavalek ranks 493. Before him are Yevgeniy Chazov, Pyotr Mamonov, Robert Bly, Buddy Van Horn, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, and Gerry Ashmore. After him are Peter Del Monte, Shankha Ghosh, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Andrzej Zieliński, Dorothy Manley, and Marco Maciel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Lubomir Kavalek ranks 698 out of 1,200. Before him are Hellmuth Karasek (1934), Věra Jourová (1964), Hana Mašková (1949), Miroslav Kadlec (1964), Františka Plamínková (1875), and Jaroslav Plašil (1982). After him are Jakub Arbes (1840), Zdeněk Grygera (1980), Vojtěch Bradáč (1913), Jan Kaplický (1937), Josef Němec (1933), and Václav Machek (1925).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among chess players born in Czechia, Lubomir Kavalek ranks 7. Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Vlastimil Hort (1944), Luděk Pachman (1924), Rudolf Charousek (1873), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), and Miroslav Filip (1928). After him are Jana Bellin (1947), and David Navara (1985).

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