Author: Jason Repa
Date: 11:37:36 04/21/02
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On April 21, 2002 at 14:11:40, 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". VERY INTERESTING, AND ENTERTAINING!! > >;-)
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