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Subject: Re: Off Topic Chess Trivia Question(Not computer related)

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 10:42:28 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 13:29:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 15, 2000 at 13:13:14, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>What small country has more people(6) in the FIDE Top 100 than the USA(5)?
>>Even more amazing is that only one of the people has an IM title.  The other 5
>>people do not even have an IM title!  Can this be true?
>>Jim Walker
>
>The list of January 2000 has the following:
>
>RUS	22
>USA	7
>ENG	6
>ARM	5
>ISR	5
>MYA	5
>
>Do you know which country is MYA?

Burma, now called Myanmar. It is said that their chessplayers cheat to get their
ELOs higher.

Alvaro

>
>Enrique

• Re: Off Topic Chess Trivia Question(Not computer related) Sune Larsson 14:17:22 01/15/00
  • Re: Off Topic Chess Trivia Question(Not computer related) Michel Chassey 15:51:19 01/15/00

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