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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:19:05 01/24/02

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On January 24, 2002 at 14:39:41, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 24, 2002 at 01:38:49, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On January 23, 2002 at 19:46:05, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>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 .
>>
>>
>> Yes, if big money is the main issue you can forget about chess. But those
>> young talents arising are very interesting and noone really knows where they
>> will end. Right now young US IM Hikaru Nakamura, 14 years old with ELO 2452,
>> is playing in the Bermudas. 3 straight wins vs the GM:s Lesiege, Vescovi and
>> Socko... GM-norm is 6/9. IM Emanuel Berg, Sweden is also playing here and
>> has 2.5/3.  http://www.bermuda.bm/chess/
>>
>> Sune
>
>
>Nice.  Thanks for the link.  It looks like Nakamura, whose rating is 6 point
>above the LOWEST in the tournament, is all alone in first place so far with 3
>out of 3 points.
>
>Do you know anything more about this young star?

http://www.nscfchess.org/nscfhika.htm
http://www.ishipress.com/nakamura.htm

This kid (Teimor Radjabov) is even more amazing, perhaps:
http://www.geocities.com/MIGHTORS6/Radjabov/
http://www.gmsquare.com/interviews/radjabov.html
http://www.kasparovchess.com/serve/templates/docs/gm.asp?p_docID=2659&p_docLang=EN



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