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Subject: Re: The Chinese secret to success

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 01:55:54 07/14/05

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>The question should be what made the russian players stronger in wastern chess
>or what makes small countries like Israel relatively strong in wastern chess

Let's remeber history: one century ago the nation with the highest percentage of
players in a a national federation was US. After the revolution Lenin introduced
Chess in the school, and in a few decades USSR was the first.
That made the difference.
I don't know if there were other places where chess was used as s teaching tool,
but for sure teaching it in a scientific fashion did the job.
Of course large numbers helped too.
regards
Franz



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