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Wolfgang Uhlmann

1935 - 2020

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Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times. Uhlmann continued to play chess into his later years, before dying at the age of 85 in Dresden. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Uhlmann is the 119th most popular chess player (down from 105th in 2019), the 4,240th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,278th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 119 out of 461. Before him are Peter Leko, Erich Eliskases, Oscar Panno, Ernst Grünfeld, Igor Bondarevsky, and Eugenio Torre. After him are István Csom, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Arturo Pomar, Fred Yates, Leonid Stein, and Sonja Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 290. Before him are Grigore Vieru, Ivo Trumbić, Agnes Simon, Egon Franke, Fujio Akatsuka, and Don Bragg. After him are Kenneth Mars, Grant Green, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Veli Lehtelä, Anne Treisman, and Brian G. Hutton. Among people deceased in 2020, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 375. Before him are Neda Arnerić, Martin Birch, Luigi Simoni, Agnes Simon, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Joseph Vilsmaier. After him are Nikolai Tanayev, Patrick Devedjian, István Kausz, Veli Lehtelä, Henryk Gulbinowicz, and Wes Unseld.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 4,242 out of 7,253. Before him are James Krüss (1926), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Jutta Rüdiger (1910), Margot Hielscher (1919), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), and Hugo von Mohl (1805). After him are Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), Friedel Lutz (1939), İlhan Mansız (1975), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), Alwin Mittasch (1869), and Franz Delitzsch (1813).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 6. Before him are Robert Hübner (1948), Louis Paulsen (1833), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Jean Dufresne (1829), and Jacques Mieses (1865). After him are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Sonja Graf (1908), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), and Boris Gulko (1947).

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