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Paul Keres

1916 - 1975

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Paul Keres ([ˈpɑu̯l ˈkeres]; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. As Estonia was repeatedly invaded and occupied during World War II, Keres was forced by the circumstances to represent the Soviet Union (1940–41, 1944–75) and Nazi Germany (1941–44) in international tournaments. Keres won the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, which led to negotiations for a title match against the reigning World Champion Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Keres is the 19th most popular chess player (down from 18th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Chess Player.

Paul Keres is most famous for being a chess grandmaster and for being the only person to win the chess World Championship title three times.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Paul Keres ranks 19 out of 461. Before him are Vasily Smyslov, François-André Danican Philidor, Howard Staunton, Frank Marshall, Paul Morphy, and Adolf Anderssen. After him are Nona Gaprindashvili, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruy López de Segura, Samuel Reshevsky, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Judit Polgár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Paul Keres ranks 32. Before him are Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Walt Whitman Rostow, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Alexander Prokhorov. After him are Vitaly Ginzburg, Ruth Handler, Natalia Ginzburg, Abdul Rahman Arif, Robert F. Furchgott, and Bernard Lewis. Among people deceased in 1975, Paul Keres ranks 22. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, and Graham Hill. After him are Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, Antonín Novotný, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, József Mindszenty, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Paul Keres ranks 11 out of 351. Before him are Arnold Rüütel (1928), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), and Wolfgang Köhler (1887). After him are Kaja Kallas (1977), Louis Kahn (1901), Alar Karis (1958), Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Siim Kallas (1948), and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Estonia

Among chess players born in Estonia, Paul Keres ranks 1. After him are Lionel Kieseritzky (1806), Vladas Mikėnas (1910), and Paul Felix Schmidt (1916).

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