List of chess players

List of chess players - Wikimedia list of persons by occupation. Article “List of chess players” in English Wikipedia has 38.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.85 points.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “List of chess players” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of chess players”, its content was written by 368 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 824 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 614 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1077 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #196 in February 2001
• Global: #196 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #108107 in June 2010
• Global: #89856 in November 2020

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Список шахістів		43.4225
2	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		41.8786
3	English (en) List of chess players		38.8017
4	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		32.999
5	French (fr) Liste de joueurs d'échecs		32.5565
6	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		27.2244
7	Slovenian (sl) Seznam šahistov		24.9203
8	Indonesian (id) Daftar pecatur terkenal		24.1973
9	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakinpelaajista		21.203
10	Japanese (ja) チェスプレーヤーの一覧		18.4274

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of chess players" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of chess players		603 371
2	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		163 850
3	Swedish (sv) Lista över schackspelare		149 597
4	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		114 322
5	Japanese (ja) チェスプレーヤーの一覧		70 114
6	French (fr) Liste de joueurs d'échecs		61 671
7	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		50 363
8	German (de) Liste historischer Schachspieler		37 250
9	Slovenian (sl) Seznam šahistov		32 986
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar pecatur terkenal		26 197

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of chess players" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of chess players		2 396
2	Swedish (sv) Lista över schackspelare		274
3	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		260
4	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		236
5	Slovenian (sl) Seznam šahistov		192
6	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		156
7	Japanese (ja) チェスプレーヤーの一覧		147
8	French (fr) Liste de joueurs d'échecs		143
9	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakinpelaajista		104
10	German (de) Liste historischer Schachspieler		59

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "List of chess players" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of chess players		368
2	German (de) Liste historischer Schachspieler		100
3	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		89
4	French (fr) Liste de joueurs d'échecs		65
5	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		39
6	Swedish (sv) Lista över schackspelare		32
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakinpelaajista		29
8	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		22
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список шахістів		19
10	Danish (da) Betydende skakstormestre		18

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "List of chess players" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		2
2	English (en) List of chess players		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		0
5	Danish (da) Betydende skakstormestre		0
6	German (de) Liste historischer Schachspieler		0
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakinpelaajista		0
8	French (fr) Liste de joueurs d'échecs		0
9	Indonesian (id) Daftar pecatur terkenal		0
10	Japanese (ja) チェスプレーヤーの一覧		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "List of chess players" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of chess players		614
2	Japanese (ja) チェスプレーヤーの一覧		219
3	Romanian (ro) Listă de jucători de șah		134
4	Slovenian (sl) Seznam šahistov		36
5	Swedish (sv) Lista över schackspelare		20
6	Dutch (nl) Lijst van bekende schakers		13
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo shakinpelaajista		10
8	Hungarian (hu) Híres sakkozók listája		8
9	Bulgarian (bg) Списък на шахматисти		7
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar pecatur terkenal		6

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Списък на шахматисти
da	Danish Betydende skakstormestre
de	German Liste historischer Schachspieler
en	English List of chess players
fi	Finnish Luettelo shakinpelaajista
fr	French Liste de joueurs d'échecs
hu	Hungarian Híres sakkozók listája
id	Indonesian Daftar pecatur terkenal
ja	Japanese チェスプレーヤーの一覧
nl	Dutch Lijst van bekende schakers
ro	Romanian Listă de jucători de șah
sl	Slovenian Seznam šahistov
sv	Swedish Lista över schackspelare
uk	Ukrainian Список шахістів

Best Rank

English: #108107 06.2010

Global: #89856 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #196 02.2001

Global: #196 02.2001

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