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Russian Chess: True or False Game

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Monday, 13 June 2011
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Below you can find 10 statements about Russian chess. Half of them (5) are true, half of them are false. Do you know chess well enough to tell which ones are which? Don't hesitate to post your answers and guesses!

1)      The coach of the Russian junior team is also a reigning European Chess Champion

2)      The regional code for cars in Saratov (where Natalia Pogonina lives) is 64

3)      Russia has the highest number of GMs per capita in the world 

4)      87% of Russians know how to play chess

5)      Russia (and USSR) have had more World Chess Champions than all the other countries combined

6)      Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev is a chess master

7)      Chess is an obligatory subject in the Russian school curriculum

8)      There is not a single woman in the Russian top-50

9)      In his junior years FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was the champion of USSR in chess

10)  The average rating of top-20 Russian players is over 2700. It is a unique case


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Comments (2)
1. Written by Phantom on 15:43 13 2011 .
 
 
1,2,5 are absolute true 
3,6,7,9 - definitely not and 8 seems false too - there is one:) 
So 4 and 10 somehow become true-) 
 
Thank you for the nice quiz!
 
2. Written by Peter on 19:35 13 2011 .
 
 
Close, but not exactly right!
 

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