CHESS PLAYER

Nicolas Rossolimo

1910 - 1975

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Nicolas Rossolimo (Russian: Николай Спиридонович Россоли́мо, romanized: Nikolai Spiridonovich Rossolimo; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian-born chess player. After acquiring Greek citizenship in 1929, he was able to emigrate that year to France, and was many times chess champion of Paris. In 1952 he emigrated to the United States, and won the 1955 U.S. Open Chess Championship. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Rossolimo is the 158th most popular chess player (down from 113th in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 703rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 158 out of 461. Before him are Georg Marco, Simen Agdestein, Hermanis Matisons, Eduard Gufeld, Sofia Polgár, and Rafael Vaganian. After him are William Lombardy, Johann Berger, Gedeon Barcza, Lev Alburt, István Bilek, and Milunka Lazarević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 296. Before him are László Cseh, Noel Rosa, Jan Dobraczyński, Anita Page, Tarab Abdul Hadi, and Kirk Alyn. After him are José dos Santos Lopes, Ji Pengfei, Frank Lubin, György Faludy, Fernando de Santiago, and Robert Earl Jones. Among people deceased in 1975, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 203. Before him are Rod Serling, Roberto Cortés, Masanori Yusa, Antonio Vojak, Tinoco, and Ali Sastroamidjojo. After him are Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Thomas Hart Benton, Carl Silfverstrand, Hermann Paul Müller, Pyotr Novikov, and Erico Verissimo.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 790 out of 1,365. Before him are Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), Nina Ruslanova (1945), Yuriy Poyarkov (1937), Georgy Langemak (1898), Mykhaylo Semenko (1892), and Ivan Kozlovsky (1900). After him are Wiesław Maniak (1938), Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), Yurii Andrukhovych (1960), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Maryna Viazovska (1984), and Andriy Voronin (1979).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among chess players born in Ukraine, Nicolas Rossolimo ranks 14. Before him are Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Leonid Stein (1934), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Anna Muzychuk (1990), Georg Marco (1863), and Eduard Gufeld (1936). After him are Kira Zvorykina (1919), Oleg Romanishin (1952), Boris Verlinsky (1888), Ruslan Ponomariov (1983), Anna Ushenina (1985), and Igors Rausis (1961).

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