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Subject: Re: europe vs asia -

Author: Charles Milton Ling

Date: 02:01:43 09/18/01

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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

It is also worth noting that GM Ian Rogers's participation on the Asian team
would suggest that Australia has moved quite a bit recently.

Charley



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