Author: steven blincoe
Date: 04:07:26 07/15/04
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>Hi Martin, > >maybe it's something we call the Boris-Becker-effect, over here in Germany. >Now, that Euwe became WC in the first half of the 20th century did a great >favour to the small Netherlands, I think. A big part of the chess interest in >that tiny country is probably due to this fact. Timman and other great players >let it simmer and at the advent of the chess computers, the rise of the very >talented programmers like Ed Schroeder and Johann de Koinig seems to have been a >very logical consequence. yes i think perhaps this could be the reason i always felt that having a world champion makes a very large impact on the chess interest in General for a country and then it would follow to Chess Programming in the US the Fischer boom has been well documented before Fischers single handed capture of the title from the Soviets the number of members in the USCF(US Chess Federation)was less then 5000 the year after Fischer won the titile the membership soared to well over 40,000 in Holland the answer must be related to Euwe... i have always maintained that Euwe was perhaps one of the most amazing champions we ever had,because he was the only WC that had another profession for his main livelihood(teacher)and chess was not his main life in the years leading up to his win against Alehkine also i think the Dutch writers on chess are amongst the finest in the world Donner,Hans Ree to name as few are heavily represented in my book collection i loved the way Donner and Prins would go at each other in print thank you for your post Best Regards Steve > >In Germany the situation is probably a tad different, since in recent years >we've never had a great player (well, Huebner was not bad, granted). However, >the tradition of the great pre second war masters (Anderssen, Lasker, Tarrasch >and the like) was still there. Together with the German tendency to love high >tech toys of all kinds (remember the first computer Z1 by the German Zuse), it >seems also quite logical that companies like first Hegner & Glaser (Mephisto) >and now Chessbase can be found here. Success obviously attracts people and so I >think it's not very surprising that the interest in that kind of toys is still >eminent. > >Just a few random thoughts... > >Mephisto regards, >Martin
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