On Apr 23, 10:19 pm, " wrote:

with FIDE, which set up this flawed system from the start in order to
protect Soviet supremacy.


Idiot. F.I.D.E. is a *French* term, and the
organization in question was not "set up" to
"protect" Soviet supremacy; Soviet supremacy is
just a simple fact of life. One day, perhaps the
Chinese or Indians will dominate the game-- but
there will always be loons who obsess over the
two seconds or so in which BF was world
champion.

If you ever run across a Web site which has a
graph of the location of all its logged-in players,
you will see why it is that Soviets -- and northern
Europe -- so dominate the chess scene; the
game is far more popular over there than in
America. In fact, I've seen players lose games
at chess in order to not miss some basketball
or football playoff, which happened to coincide.
Here in the USA, people are obsessed with
sports, cars and money.


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