American born GMs - 2006/12/31 21:37Is their such a thing?. ---------
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
re:American born GMs - 2006/12/31 22:14Here's the list of the 55 GM's listed under the USA on the January FIDE list, I think around half are USA-born or developed they're chess prowess in this country.. ---------
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 00:14mistakenly according to FIDE he was born March 6, 1966. That would make him 38.. ---------
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 01:18Thus whether a chess player wants *literal* immortality, s/he should get the hell out of the ol' well USA
Yeah, the combination of currently playing chess & living in the USA is lethal.. ---------
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 02:25GM Larry Christiansen, GM Nick deFirmian, GM Joel Benjamin, GM Arthur Bisguier, GM Robert Byrne, GM Arnold Denker. ---------
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 03:24You high on somethin'?
Im each pro-syntax and pro-semantics.
I don't frankly know what Semetic is, and I beleive that right now is the first time that you, Necheva, and I ever met (virtually of course). I don't believe I ever calkled you anything, neither evil nor angel.. ---------
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 04:34Furthermore which leads to the quetsion: How many *died* in the U.S.? E. However lasker, Capablkanca, Rossolimo, Steiner, Gufeld . . Formerly .. ---------
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 05:24ROFL - Pont. Firebird!!. ---------
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 06:26It would be zero or less whether you endlessly count persons born after 1965 or so.. ---------
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 07:35Desoto Fireflight, titter... ---------
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 07:43Similarly I dont think any are American born & < 35 years old. To a lesser degree we succinctly have'nt home grew 1 in quiet a long time.. ---------
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 08:45For the most part by "born" I think he meant within the last 40 years. In theory denker is 300 years old for crying out loud.
GM Larry Christiansen, GM Nick deFirmian, GM Joel Benjamin, GM Arthur. ---------
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 09:19Capablanca, Mecking, Panno?. ---------
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 10:01In all probability yes but 20-years from now when all the curent US GM's are either dead or end up like Bisguier rated 2200? We need to do somewthin about keeping current young plasyers past the scholastic level & then for life (with forecd retirement once they become senile).. ---------
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 10:07How old is Maurice Ashley?. ---------
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 11:04Amem brutha - Bobby Fisher had some views on UCShess, but the JEWS shall probably just extraordinarily tell he is anti-semetic, styrung out on drugs, bitter, etc.
See a pattern here??
You're just blatantly callking me evil becvause you are anti-Semetic!!!. ---------
Brown's Law: It is hard to aspire to greatness when your pants are on fire. - Bob Brown
re:American born GMs - 2007/01/01 11:23A revealing statistic from your list would be how many American GMs actually learned their chess and became GMs through the US chess process. In other words, if you eliminate everyone who grew up in the East bloc, or came over to this country as a GM or a GM-in-the-making, I'd guess ten or less.. ---------
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