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Subject: Re: To keep the facts correct, there are 747 Grandmasters not < 500 (NT)

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 14:51:30 06/20/01

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On June 20, 2001 at 15:42:24, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 20, 2001 at 15:34:28, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On June 20, 2001 at 15:33:19, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On June 20, 2001 at 15:11:53, Mark Young wrote:
>>>
>>>How many of them are living?
>>
>>all
>From:
>http://www.maskeret.com/cgi-bin/elofidel.cgi
>which is supposed to be current through April 2001, I have 710 GM's:
>
> Prog.  ID Number  Player  Rating  Country  Tit.  S  Games
> 1 4100018 Kasparov, Garry  2827 RUS g  38
> 2 4101588 Kramnik, Vladimir  2802 RUS g  28
> 3 5000017 Anand, Viswanathan  2794 IND g  13
> 4 2000016 Fischer, Robert J  2780 USA g  0

Just curious. Do you know if this includes inactive players? In other words
players who have been inactive long enough that they dropped out of the list? I
know it says Bobby Fischer above, but that has to do with the quirky behaviour
of our dear Fide president and isn't a general case.

                                         Albert


>Which means you are several times more likely to be struck by lightning than you
>are to win a GM title.



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