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

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 14:17:22 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 13:42:28, Alvaro Polo wrote:

>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

  Rumour is that they play lots of games vs eachother. So called autoplay.
  But we don´t believe in autoplay do we?...

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

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