Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:23:50 09/21/00
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On September 21, 2000 at 22:31:08, Mike S. wrote: >On September 21, 2000 at 17:09:17, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On September 21, 2000 at 16:21:45, Peter Kappler wrote: >>>I'm happy to see that the name 'Peter' is so common here! >>>--Peter >> >>I always found it a bit odd because I don't know if I've met that many people >>name Peter in person. Steven should do a poll which can only be answered if >>your first name is Pete or Peter (or other variations of) >> >>Pete > >I seem to have discovered, that all Peters are usually chess players. Every >Peter I knew, was a chess player. One of them was even a draughts player, >additionally. Somebody should make a database query for what the most common >first names of chessplayers are, to see if our observations get statistically >acknowledged. This could account for there being so many people at CCC named Pete, but would this be a statistic about the % people named Pete/Peter who are Chess players, or a statistic about the % of Chessplayers named Pete/Peter. To be honest, I can't think of a single high profile, famous Chess player who is named Pete. That may be because of my rather shaky knowlage about Chess. Pete > >(I have to post something, to improve my status from an "occasional" to a >"frequent" poster. My strategy will be to increase the quantity at first, and >the qualitity improvement is delayed at the moment until phase 2.) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl
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