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Wolfgang Unzicker

1925 - 2006

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Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the "world champion of amateurs". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Unzicker is the 134th most popular chess player (down from 122nd in 2019), the 4,508th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,537th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 134 out of 461. Before him are Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Humpy Koneru, Boris Gelfand, András Adorján, Ernst Falkbeer, and Miroslav Filip. After him are Vladimir Bagirov, Győző Forintos, Daniel Harrwitz, Predrag Nikolić, Vladas Mikėnas, and Ossip Bernstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 332. Before him are Marlen Khutsiev, Nat Lofthouse, Virginia E. Johnson, András Kovács, David A. Huffman, and Geraldine Brooks. After him are P. Bhanumathi, Carlo Annovazzi, Abel Muzorewa, William Wharton, András Toma, and Bruce Kirby. Among people deceased in 2006, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 244. Before him are Lou Rawls, Pjetër Arbnori, Theodore Levitt, Runer Jonsson, Ray Barretto, and Paul Arizin. After him are Jaroslav Pelikan, Frank Beyer, Jimmy Johnstone, Eugene Lazowski, Mary Boyce, and Savino Guglielmetti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 4,511 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor Blank (1905), Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), Michael Zorc (1962), Corona Schröter (1751), Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), and Robert Havemann (1910). After him are E. Marlitt (1825), Rudolf Gramlich (1908), Ellen Preis (1912), Juliane Köhler (1965), Jakob Streitle (1916), and Friedrich Kittler (1943).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Unzicker ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), and Sonja Graf (1908). After him are Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Boris Gulko (1947), Carl Mayet (1810), Aaron Alexandre (1766), and Natalia Zhukova (1979).

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