"Alan O'Brien" wrote in message ...
"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski" wrote in message
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On one hand Morphy, Steinitz, Reshevski, Najdorf, Bronstein,
Tal, Petrosian were short (Bronstein still is), on the other
hand Marshall, Euve, Keres, Smyslov, Fischer, Kramnik were
or are tall. Also Alechine was fairly tall, and so is Spassky.

Do strong women chess players tend to be on the short side?

Some chessplayers are/were medium tall for their
generation and environment but short on the global
scale.

Well?

Regards,

Wlod

PS. Rating institutions should (optionally)
collect all kind of trivia about the chess
players, so that I would be able to make
or disproof all kind of correlations :-)

I met Kramnik and Kasparov in London in 2000.
Kasparov is about 6 foot 8 inches tall and Kramnik about 6' 10".
But I seem to remember that Vera Menchik was 8 foot 4". Quite extraordinary!
Alan

An optional, RTT question might be: "How strong are tall chessplayers?".

Mark