Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 17:19:59 10/03/05
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On October 03, 2005 at 19:57:11, robert flesher wrote: >Kasparian was a famous chess problem composer was he not? Yes, but ... From the Wikipedia entry on Garry Kasparov: Garry Kasparov was born as Garry Vajnshtejn (the surname analogous to English Weinstein) in Baku, Azerbaijan (at that time republic of Soviet Union) to Armenian-Jewish parentage. ... When he was 7, his father died, and he adopted his mother's surname as soon as was legally possible, at the age of 12. His mother Klara is an Armenian woman whose surname is "Kasparian", and "Kasparov" is the Russianised version of this name. Mark
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