Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:55:55 03/22/01
I am wondering something. For instance, for Israel and Russia, there is a very large proportion of excellent chess players. A cursory scan of the GM list will show that those of Russian descent or Israeli descent have a very, very high proportion of GM's -- way out of proportion to the general population. Now, I'm not going to ask about that here, because it would only be topical on GCF. On the other hand... It seems to me that there is a huge proportion of excellent chess programmers from Germany and the Netherlands. Considering the population of the countries and the number of programmers writing excellent chess programs, the proportion is as enormous as the previously mentioned GM proportions. Does anyone have any sort of explanation as to why this is so? Educational system? Cultural focus on this topic? What?
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