Comments on: Jewish Chess players http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archives/240 Libertas inæstimabilis res est Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:38:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Jewish Chess players by: Luca Pacioli http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archives/240#comment-41040 Mon, 28 May 2007 21:00:48 +0000 http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archives/240#comment-41040 Go to La Griffe du Lion for an explanation of why CCNY ( City College in NY before it became City University ) produced 8 Nobel Prize-winners in hard sciences during a period of about 30 years. The explanation is plausible and would also apply to chess players. ( WHY the effect exists, if it does, is another matter and invites speculation e.g. constant discrimination weeds out the less-fit; alternatively, the best minds in the non-Jewish but European world might have been removed from the gene pool by clerical celibacy ) Go to La Griffe du Lion for an explanation of why CCNY ( City College in NY before it became City University ) produced 8 Nobel Prize-winners in hard sciences during a period of about 30 years. The explanation is plausible and would also apply to chess players. ( WHY the effect exists, if it does, is another matter and invites speculation e.g. constant discrimination weeds out the less-fit; alternatively, the best minds in the non-Jewish but European world might have been removed from the gene pool by clerical celibacy )

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