favorite chess players from yesteryear

"I started sweeping streets in the middle of the winter and it was horrible. Of course there were no machines then, so we had to do everything by hand. Some of the older men helped me out. I was a weak boy. And I was ashamed of being a street sweeper—that's natural, I suppose. It wasn't so bad in the early morning when the streets were empty, but when it got light and the crowds came out I really hated it. I got sick and missed a year in school. We had a babushka, a sister of my father, and she really saved me. She gave me bread to eat when I was sick and hungry. That's when this trouble with my hearing started. I don't remember how it all happened. Things aren't very clear from that time"

-Tigran Petrosian

From Interview with Time Magazine

Top 20 players from Ecuador:

Ecuador (Active players)

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Matamoros Franco, Carlos S.	g	ECU	2548	9	1966
2	Tulcan War, Lenin	F	ECU	2421	7	1989
3	Peace Medina, Miguel	m	ECU	2414	25	1968
4	Mera Cedeno, Angel	F	ECU	2398	4	1976
5	Nuque Moran, Augusto	m	ECU	2386	0	1979
6	Macias Murillo Bryan	m	ECU	2382	21	1990
7	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2380	0	1977
8	Honey Palau, Daniel	m	ECU	2374	0	1985
9	Bastidas Rodriguez, Emilio	m	ECU	2372	0	1979
10	Zambrano Mendoza, Jose		ECU	2300	0	1984
11	Munoz Sanchez, Miguel	m	ECU	2298	0	1982
12	Santos Flores, Alberto	m	ECU	2283	7	1987
13	Galarza, Polo		ECU	2277	0	1955
14	Gambarrotti Pazos, Pliny	m	ECU	2267	20	1960
15	Aucay Pelaez Mauro	F	ECU	2258	13	1980
16	Tirado Alarcon, Cesar	F	ECU	2251	0	1966
17	Munoz Sanchez, John		ECU	2216	13	1986
18	Chang Suarez, Rommel		ECU	2211	6	1987
19	Budima, Armend		ECU	2198	0	1969
20	Chang Suarez, Emerson		ECU	2194	0	1984

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