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

Author: Michel Chassey

Date: 15:51:19 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 17:17:22, Sune Larsson wrote:

>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?...


They also engage in the human version of autoplay.  :)



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