CHESS PLAYER

Mikhail Chigorin

1850 - 1908

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Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; 12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1850 – 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1908) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet chess school", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Chigorin is the 30th most popular chess player (down from 28th in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Russia (up from 476th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Mikhail Chigorin ranks 30 out of 461. Before him are Siegbert Tarrasch, Judit Polgár, Vera Menchik, Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, and Luis Ramírez de Lucena. After him are Richard Réti, Miguel Najdorf, David Bronstein, Efim Bogoljubov, Susan Polgár, and Vassily Ivanchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Mikhail Chigorin ranks 29. Before him are Lafcadio Hearn, Besarion Jughashvili, Ignác Goldziher, César Ritz, Victoriano Huerta, and Sami Frashëri. After him are Ivan Vazov, Pat Garrett, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Zdeněk Fibich, Nikolai Golitsyn, and Ebenezer Howard. Among people deceased in 1908, Mikhail Chigorin ranks 18. Before him are Jonas Lie, Victorien Sardou, Butch Cassidy, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Radoje Domanović, and Joseph Maria Olbrich. After him are Wilhelm Busch, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Machado de Assis, Pat Garrett, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, and Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Chigorin ranks 405 out of 3,761. Before him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Lydia Litvyak (1921), and Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924). After him are Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Ivan Serov (1905), Alexander Yegorov (1883), and Yury Luzhkov (1936).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Mikhail Chigorin ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Alekhine (1892), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), and Vera Menchik (1906). After him are Savielly Tartakower (1887), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), and Semyon Alapin (1856).

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