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Subject: Re: (OT) Why all the top chess players are from Russia ? (Ponomariov is)

Author: walter irvin

Date: 16:46:05 01/23/02

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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

in america everything is about the money .if getting into chess would make you
very rich or at least get you say $90,000 + yearly , americans would plow the
russians or any one else over . but the situation is that unless you are the
best of the best of the best , you are going to be the broke of the broke maybe
the brokest .if the big money is not there ,then the smartest will go into
something like a DR and make more in a year then he would have made in a life
time at chess .



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