Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:00:31 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 07:07:26, steven blincoe wrote: >>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 The USCF has about 50,000-60,000 paying members which is quite low if you compare that to pinhead Holland which has about 30,000. >in Holland the answer must be related to Euwe... Obviously. But chess was already quite popular here. My best, Ed
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