Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:32:21 04/21/02
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On April 21, 2002 at 14:25:12, Martin Andersen wrote:
>On April 21, 2002 at 14:12:16, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>>Fide's list of the top 100 players has some interesting attributes:
>>>
>>>1) 3 of the top 4 players in the world have first names that begin with V.
>>>
>>>2) 11 of the top 19 players have first names that begin with either the letter A
>>>or the letter V. 58% of of the top players are using opnly 7.7% of the
>>>alphabet!
>>>
>>>For almost 30 years, at or near the very top were players named Karpov,
>>>Korchnoi, Kasparov, Kramnik, and Kamsky. After Fischer "retired", for years and
>>>years the top two were Karpov and Korchnoi. Now they are Kasparov and Kramnik.
>>>Khalifman and Karpov are in the top 15. So while you are changing your first
>>>name to begin with "V" or "A", you might also want to change your last name to
>>>begin with "K".
>>>
>>>;-)
>
>
>Yes, and pigs can fly.
How? I'm interested.
Christophe
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