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Originally Posted by pearla59 What thought process brought you to that conclusion? |
Just that you mentioned they were absolute numbers. For numbers of 50-100 or so to be significant in
any country, I figured they had to be some kind of medal winners/champions, and chess was they only thing I could think of where Russia would be that much better than the rest of the world
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Originally Posted by pearla59 So what's the difference between the two colours? |
Don't know, the numbers are confusing anyway

. Can't find any set of data where GMs in Russia number more than 219, the number FIDE
gives.
Can't be men/women though, there is only a
handful of female GMs in the whole world.
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Originally Posted by pearla59 Have you ever heard an explanation of why the Russian are doing so well? |
'Long, cold winters' they used to say, but here's
someone who thought about it a bit more

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