From: SChazworth <at> AOL <dot> COM
Date: 21 dec 1996
Subject: Re: The "bishop"

In a message dated 96-12-21 03:46:21 EST, you write:

<< in contradiction to
 Sams suggestion that chess is relatively dead in India. >>

Viswanathan Anand, currently considered in the top three or four chessplayers
in the world, is Indian.  He is a regular competitor in chess' highest
tournaments (including the most competitve ever, currently going on in the
Canary Islands).  This is the highest that an Indian has ever risen in the
Chess ranks.