Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 14:16:03 09/17/01
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On September 17, 2001 at 15:28:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: >i recently visited the chessbase site where the participants and their countries >were listed. > >under europe were listed; georgia and israel. pardon my ignorance but i thought >both these countries are in asia? as is armenia and azerbaijan, thereby making >kasparov the first world champion from asia and not anand.or does a caucasian >background automatically make one a european? > >rajen Karpov was born in the Ural mountains which is in the limit between Europe and Asia (Zlatoust). What side of the Urals was Karpov born? Is he European or Asian?. And how about Petrosian? Armenia is not more european or asian than Azerbajian. The map changed a lot since I studied it in elementary school... IIRC Georgia used to be in the part of the Soviet Union that was considered Europe (west of the Ural Mountains). Now I do not know. Well, I thought that Georgia was in America :-) Regards, Miguel
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