Ralf Callenberg wrote:
01.06.2006 17:17, Ian Burton:
I was watching the Aronian game on the ICC yesterday when a
kibitzer noted that Aronian was only 137 cm tall (about 5'4"). Is
this true?

Just as a remark: 5'4'' is about 162 cm.

And 137cm is only 4'6".


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"I was heartbroken when I learned that Lawrence of Arabia was
five-foot-
three. It's just not natural. " (Wilma}
===============
General Eddie Richenbacher was a very short man. Most of Britian's
RAF fighter pilots were small men due to limitations of the cockpits.
The ideal size for a US paratrooper is about 5'6' or so. They say
smaller men tend to move about quickly and more quietly during infantry
combat. Many Mexican males are small men. Properly trained and well
led, the Mexicans are outstanding infantryment, as good as any. And,
of course, we have the Vietnamese example.

Napoleon was a very short man and he liked to play chess. In general short
people are very ambitious because of the shortcomings the nature gives them.

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:48:10 +0200, "Jerzy" wrote:

Uzytkownik napisal w wiadomosci
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"I was heartbroken when I learned that Lawrence of Arabia was
five-foot-
three. It's just not natural. " (Wilma}
===============
General Eddie Richenbacher was a very short man. Most of Britian's
RAF fighter pilots were small men due to limitations of the cockpits.
The ideal size for a US paratrooper is about 5'6' or so. They say
smaller men tend to move about quickly and more quietly during infantry
combat. Many Mexican males are small men. Properly trained and well
led, the Mexicans are outstanding infantryment, as good as any. And,
of course, we have the Vietnamese example.

Napoleon was a very short man and he liked to play chess. In general short
people are very ambitious because of the shortcomings the nature gives them.

How do you explain Fischer?

EZoto

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wrote:
"I was heartbroken when I learned that Lawrence of Arabia
was five-foot-three. It's just not natural. " (Wilma}

In David Lean's film, the character of T.E. Lawrence
('Lawrence of Arabia) was played by Peter O'Toole,
who's 191 cm (6'3'') tall.

General Eddie Richenbacher was a very short man.
Most of Britian's RAF fighter pilots were small men due
to limitations of the cockpits.

In the Second World War, American fighter aeroplane
cockpits (particularly for the Republic P-47 'Thunderbolt')
tended to be the largest among the major combatants'.

The ideal size for a US paratrooper is about 5'6' or so.
They say smaller men tend to move about quickly and
more quietly during infantry combat. Many Mexican
males are small men.

Some Mexican boxers in the lower weight classes
are outstanding.

Properly trained and well led, the Mexicans are outstanding
infantryment, as good as any. And, of course, we have the
Vietnamese example.

Nepal's Gurkha soldiers are supposed to have an average
height of about 160 cm (5'3'') or so. The Gurkhas also have
a fearsome reputation for their prowess in close combat.

--Nick

EZoto wrote:
Bruce Lee was 5'4".

I doubt that's a factually accurate statement.

According to what I can recall of the published articles
and books that I have read about him, Bruce Lee was taller,
at least 5 feet 7 inches, than EZoto's figure.

The Internet Movie Database lists Bruce Lee's height
as 171 cm (5 feet 7 1/2 inches).

From what I can recall reading, when Bruce Lee was
a student at the University of Washington, he taught
some classes in martial arts or self-defence techniques.
Some physically larger men refused to believe that a
rather small Chinese man could be an expert in what
he did, and so they challenged or provoked him
(sometimes by racist taunts) into fighting them.
Then the extent to which Bruce Lee would beat them
up depended on how much he felt offended by them.

--Nick

"Nick" wrote:
[ . . . ]
Some Mexican boxers in the lower weight classes
are outstanding.
[ . . . ]

For sure! My friend, Danny "El Tigre" Valdez, was one such, who won the
California Featherweight Championhip in 1959. 38 years later (when last I
saw him), if you held your hand in front of you (we were drinking buddies
as well as co-workers), he could throw a punch at it from 6" away that
would knock you off your feet! And yet, he was a gentle, soft-spoken guy.

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"Ralf Callenberg" wrote in message
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01.06.2006 17:17, Ian Burton:
I was watching the Aronian game on the ICC yesterday when a kibitzer
noted that Aronian was only 137 cm tall (about 5'4"). Is this true?

Just as a remark: 5'4'' is about 162 cm.

Thanks for the correction. The height given by the kibitzer was 137cm, not
my native mode of measurement. I clearly converted incorrectly. That
Aronian is a dwarf is very difficult to believe. Then again, even dwarfs
started off small. :)

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Ian Burton
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Greetings,
Ralf

EZoto wrote:
"Jerzy" wrote:
In general short people are very ambitious because of the
shortcomings the nature gives them.

How do you explain Fischer?

NB: X implies Y does not imply that not X implies not Y.


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EZoto napisal(a):

Napoleon was a very short man and he liked to play chess. In general short
people are very ambitious because of the shortcomings the nature gives them.

How do you explain Fischer?


Fischer had much energy when he was young as majority of us and of
course he had a motivation to play and win. However his energy drained
up at 29 when he quitted chess and of course he lost his motivation to
play when he achieved his life goal.

Short ones have more balanced life energy than tall ones and usually
play longer :-)

Right. The contrapositive of "If x then y" is "If not y then not x."
Wilma


David Richerby wrote in news:qVh*
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EZoto wrote:
"Jerzy" wrote:
In general short people are very ambitious because of the
shortcomings the nature gives them.

How do you explain Fischer?

NB: X implies Y does not imply that not X implies not Y.


Dave.