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- From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
- Subject: Re: 2267 Performance Rating for 10-year old in Montreal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.203125.2156@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <1993Jan2.130353.14810@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1993Jan3.043104.1920@cis.uab.edu> <1993Jan3.150252.22412@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:31:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.150252.22412@athena.mit.edu> jmh@athena.mit.edu (J Michael Hammond) writes:
- >...
- >If you do break out the database, Elliott, could you look up two kids
- >from Minneapolis: Jamie Wheat and his younger sister Erin?
-
- From the December 1992 Annual Rating List:
-
- James Franklin Wheat (14) is currently listed as 2063*x2, number 11 on the
- Top Age 13-14 list.
-
- Erin E Wheat (12) is currently listed as 1510*C9, number 45 on the Top
- Age 11-12 list.
-
-
- >...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.
-
- Mr. Wheat seems to have dropped out - he's not listed, so was not active
- in 1992.
-
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