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- From: jmh@athena.mit.edu (J Michael Hammond)
- Subject: Re: 2267 Performance Rating for 10-year old in Montreal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.150252.22412@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <31DEC92.15661460.0064@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1993Jan2.130353.14810@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1993Jan3.043104.1920@cis.uab.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:02:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.043104.1920@cis.uab.edu> sloan@cis.uab.edu
- (Kenneth Sloan) writes:
- >>In article <31DEC92.15661460.0064@VM1.MCGILL.CA>,
- CCHB@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CCHB) writes:
- >>> Ten-year old Lefong Hua scored an impressive 3.5 out of 5 in the
- >>> Open section of a tournament in Montreal (Canada) which ended
- >>> yesterday...
- [some deletion]
- >My guess (Elliott! break out the historical database and embarass me!)
- >is that a 10yr old with a published, established, Expert rating is very
- >exceptional, but not unknown...
-
- If you do break out the database, Elliott, could you look up two kids
- from Minneapolis: Jamie Wheat and his younger sister Erin? Back in
- 1990 they both played regularly at the chess club in Minneapolis, I
- think Jamie was nine and Erin seven. Jamie was already an A player at
- that time and Erin either had broken or was bearing down on 1400. I
- moved out of the area in early 1991 and haven't seen or heard much of
- the Minneapolis chess scene since.
-
- Unlike other notable examples, their parents seem to be quite
- reasonable. Mr. Wheat took up tournament chess about the same time as
- the kids and seemed quite happy to learn from both of them.
-