Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:35:56 03/23/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 19:55:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >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? Go back 30 years. The US dominated. 20 years? Ditto. Even 15 years ago we had a significant list. But interest has waned. As have the US participants (except for a few of us, obviously). I think the US is now making a come-back for whatever reasons... we have more and more new chess programs each year...
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