Why Russians are Good in Chess?

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mb68

Dec 30, 2012

#61

Vease, you're mistaken too... Tal wasn't a Latvian, he was a Jew, as a lot of Soviet era GMs. It was one of those (not so many) fields where they were not discriminated, and choose it to succeed.

madhacker

Dec 30, 2012

#62

He was Latvian and Jewish, I fail to see why these are mutually exclusive.

SandyJames

Dec 30, 2012

#63

Ohhh! Nice to see my post surfaced again like some kinda message in a bottle !!

Vease

Dec 30, 2012

#64

mb68 wrote:

Vease, you're mistaken too... Tal wasn't a Latvian, he was a Jew, as a lot of Soviet era GMs. It was one of those (not so many) fields where they were not discriminated, and choose it to succeed.

Judaism is a religion, not a nationality. You are correct otherwise though, maybe a better topic title is 'Why were so many great players Jewish?'

bulletheadbilly

Dec 30, 2012

#65

Lets Not Start Slinging Racial or Religious Pies Around.

The Jews were Good Because they Lived in that Area of Mother Russia, And Chess & Russia go Hand in Hand...

And Thats the End of it...

bobbavich

Mar 3, 2013

#66

like another post said it was during the cold war where the russian goverment educated there players in chess,they thought it would show the rest of the world that intellegence was power,seemed like a load of properganda to me