Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:54:52 01/23/02
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Where a culture supports the cause its very easy. - Watch out for the Chinese! (and maybe India) - State support for our version of chess is large now, and they have many more GM's & IM's then at any previous time in their history. In the USA, we dominate such sports as Baseball, Football, Tennis & even Bowling. Why? Because our media advertises these things as the way to success, true or not. Actually its amazing that we have had the success in chess (before the fall of the Soviet Union & immigration), that we have had. Very lucky for us to have had Robert James Fischer between 1959-72. Not so 'lucky' to have had this sick human, (as an American citizan), who has become an embarassment to the game after... Larry S. Tamarkin On January 23, 2002 at 12:36:45, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >I don't remember if this was already debated here, but I would like some >convincing answer to the above question. >The Sovietic Chess School has made all the greatest chess players of this >century, with few exceptions... what are the secrets of these outstanding >performances in this discipline ? >A very efficient selection mechanism or a Russian genetic predisposition ...? >:) > >w.b.r. >Otello
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