Russian Relaxing: Difference between revisions

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Russia is famous for its chess playing- in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', you can no longer actually play Chess in a [[Chess with Death]] scenario because no Russians died for about a decade. Of the top 10 current chess players in the world (FIDE rankings), 2, including the world No.4 Vladmir Kramnik, are Russian and 4 (5 if you count the Latvian-born Alexei Shirov, who has since defected to Spain) are from the other former Soviet states. Of the World Champions between 1927 and 2007, only Max Euwe (1935-1937, Netherlands) and Bobby Fischer (1972-751972–75, USA) were from any other countries.