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Subject: Re: World championship titles

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 15:30:35 06/05/98

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On June 05, 1998 at 16:03:49, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Life of almost all GMI is awful. You can hire a GM in whashington square
>for a couple of bucks and even get from him to wass your car.

Sound like supply/demand has also many negative effects, especially when
there are more suppliers than demands ! :-))
Here in germany an IM has not to wash cars for a few bucks.
They are well respected human beeings.
With pride and dignity.

> In my
>country all IM are poor creatures that has lost his careers -mostly in
>engineering and law- and wander from one little town to another to see
>if they can win a porice oif let us say 500 dollars.

Oh . What a pity.

> On the contrary,
>really smart top players continued his careers and are now wealthy of
>well to do professionals using his brain in normally well payed
>activities. GM have sommething of the idiot-savant that sych literature
>has described since long. I remember an studen in my college that was at
>the dsame time the best of us playing chess but he was for uncapable to
>solve just the simplest of differential e

?!?! !! :-))



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