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Dagobah Resident
A friend just sent me this:
__http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6796
And he pointed this out:
"But that overwhelmingly, absurdly disproportionate dominance suggests there must be something more to the phenomenon, something about chess itself that resonates particularly with the Jews, with the Jewish condition? Greenfeld doesn’t really think so. “If so, it’s very deep,”
he offers after a long pause. “Most of the [top Israeli] players don’t have a real connection to Judaism – not knowledge, not observance. If it’s something genetic? I don’t know.”"
I remember reading somewhere on the forum that Israel's share of PP's are also disproportionate.
I also remember reading in the Wave that chess is, more or less what I wrote as headline or am I totally off here?
__http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6796
And he pointed this out:
"But that overwhelmingly, absurdly disproportionate dominance suggests there must be something more to the phenomenon, something about chess itself that resonates particularly with the Jews, with the Jewish condition? Greenfeld doesn’t really think so. “If so, it’s very deep,”
he offers after a long pause. “Most of the [top Israeli] players don’t have a real connection to Judaism – not knowledge, not observance. If it’s something genetic? I don’t know.”"
I remember reading somewhere on the forum that Israel's share of PP's are also disproportionate.
I also remember reading in the Wave that chess is, more or less what I wrote as headline or am I totally off here?