The Chess Survey - Need Help.

Remember this?

Today I carried out a poll on 18 people.
I did it in the queue at the Post Office whilst I posting off stuff
I sold on ebay.

(Only 18? you will see why in a minute).

I asked them to name 3 famous chess players and if I got 3
I was going to ask them the name of the current British Champion.

18 people polled.

Nobody could think of any chess player at all. I gave up.

One guy said "Checkov" (he's the Russian lad in Star Trek).

I am going out again tomorrow.
This time I am hitting the Edinburgh University.
Surely I'll find someone there who can give me one name.

You guys reading this at work - please take 2 -3 minutes and ask
your colleagues to name 3 famous chess players.

Post results here.

ie. (hopefully)

Fischer 2
Karpov 1
None 3 (three people asked could not give any).

PS:
Just asked my wife and son to name three.

(they live in a house with chess books everywhere - 2 chess sets
permanently set up - chess pictures, statues, trophies, t-shirts)

Done it.

They gave me three each - the poll is rolling.

Wife: Tal, Korchnoi and Kasparov.
Son: Short Kasparov and Fischer.

Ask your wives.
(a few will say my name in their sleep but that does count) 🙂

My son spat out Kasparov, Kramnik, Chigorin, and Alekhine...he know these names because I named my World of Warcraft characters after them. He took over all my characters.

Thank you, added to the list. I'll take the first three,

(you named your Warcraft characters after chess players) 😕

We need to talk.

Up until the age of 38 I wouldn't have been able to tell you a single one. I'd probably still have difficulty at this moment.

Edit:

One more thing...

Greenpawn,

Turn off the computer and go to sleep!!

I've asked four people, and three of them could tell me three

Fisher 4
Kasparov 3
Karpov 2
Capablanca 1

Sleep? Sleep?

I sleep at the keyboard in between posts.

I'm going away for a holiday soon so you will get peace for a while.

Any RHP guys in Bridgend? I'm going down there for a while.

Originally posted by clandarkfire
I've asked four people, and three of them could tell me three

Fisher 4
Kasparov 3
Karpov 2
Capablanca 1

Originally posted by Eladar
Up until the age of 38 I wouldn't have been able to tell you a single one. I'd probably still have difficulty at this moment.

Edit:

One more thing...

Greenpawn,

Turn off the computer and go to sleep!!

Kasparov
Karpov
Judit Polgar

So far I asked 1 person in my office. She could name only 2 players:
Karpov 1
Kasparov 1
None 1

(None means that no 3rd player rather than the person could not name any players, right?)

Fischer 2

None 3

Hi Guych

Cheers, as long as you make it clear what has happened, as here,
then i can work with that.

Cheers Sniper.

What about the rest of you? No work mates, no friends...Shy?

Asked two of my sisters:

1) Karpov
2) Kasparpov
3) Euwe
4) Kasparov
5) Timman
6) Heinzkat

The other one came up with:

1) Korsakov (she drinks a lot, obviously)
2) Two names of notorious competitors from my youth years
3) Heinzkat

Just asked the wife, answer was as follows:

"Bobby Fischer, ummm...ummm Kev, Kev Kevot or something. And there's another Check something. Give me a minute, I'll go look at your books"

Better than I expected actually 🙂

1) Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer
2) Kasparov, Karpov, none