CHESS PLAYER

Miguel Najdorf

1910 - 1997

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Miguel Najdorf ( NY-dorf; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leading world player in the 1940s and 1950s, and is also known for the Najdorf Variation, one of the most popular chess openings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Najdorf is the 32nd most popular chess player (down from 29th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Poland (up from 293rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Chess Player.

Miguel Najdorf is most famous for his contribution to the game of chess. He was a Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster and a chess writer. Najdorf was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910 and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1997. He was an International Master from 1951 and a Grandmaster from 1953. Najdorf is known for his contributions to opening theory, especially for the Sicilian Defense. Najdorf also introduced the Najdorf Variation in the Sicilian Defense.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Miguel Najdorf ranks 32 out of 461. Before him are Vera Menchik, Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, and Richard Réti. After him are David Bronstein, Efim Bogoljubov, Susan Polgár, Vassily Ivanchuk, Savielly Tartakower, and Friðrik Ólafsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Miguel Najdorf ranks 62. Before him are Diosdado Macapagal, Diana Mosley, Farid al-Atrash, August Landmesser, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, and Dorothy Vaughan. After him are Shunichi Kumai, Lobsang Rampa, Galina Ulanova, A. J. Ayer, Ferdinand Daučík, and Kim Il. Among people deceased in 1997, Miguel Najdorf ranks 63. Before him are André Franquin, Charles Brenton Huggins, Shoichi Yokoi, George Wald, Masaru Ibuka, and Hastings Banda. After him are Marco Ferreri, Fela Kuti, Maria Prymachenko, Gerda Christian, Louis, Prince Napoléon, and Yuri Nikulin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Miguel Najdorf ranks 279 out of 1,694. Before him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), and Stanisław Ryłko (1945). After him are Hans Kammler (1901), Kurt Masur (1927), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), and Adam Czerniaków (1880).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Miguel Najdorf ranks 7. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), and Johannes Zukertort (1842). After him are Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Valery Salov (1964), and Monika Soćko (1978).

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