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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