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Savielly Tartakower

1887 - 1956

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Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. Tartakower was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s and is noted for his many witticisms. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Savielly Tartakower is the 37th most popular chess player (down from 30th in 2019), the 462nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 495th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Savielly Tartakower ranks 37 out of 461. Before him are Richard Réti, Miguel Najdorf, David Bronstein, Efim Bogoljubov, Susan Polgár, and Vassily Ivanchuk. After him are Friðrik Ólafsson, Bent Larsen, Vlastimil Hort, Borislav Ivkov, Robert Hübner, and Lyudmila Rudenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Savielly Tartakower ranks 68. Before him are Annette Kellermann, Josef Čapek, Frederick Fleet, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Joseph Bech. After him are Sivananda Saraswati, James Paul Moody, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Conrad Hilton, Marcus Garvey, and Paul Wittgenstein. Among people deceased in 1956, Savielly Tartakower ranks 53. Before him are Mistinguett, Alben W. Barkley, Gottfried Benn, Giovanni Papini, David Seymour, and Chandrashekhar Agashe. After him are Erich Kleiber, Pío Baroja, Hiram Bingham III, Hermann Abendroth, Elpidio Quirino, and Thomas J. Watson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Savielly Tartakower ranks 462 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Maria Spiridonova (1884), Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), Roza Shanina (1924), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), and Pavel Milyukov (1859). After him are Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Sacha Guitry (1885), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and Mikhail Lazarev (1788).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Savielly Tartakower ranks 9. Before him are Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Vera Menchik (1906), and Mikhail Chigorin (1850). After him are Olga Rubtsova (1909), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Semyon Alapin (1856), and Elisaveta Bykova (1913).

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