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Chess equation

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Aronian, Levon + Leko, Peter + Radjabov, Teimour + Akopian, Vladimir + Bacrot, Etienne + Malakhov, Vladimir + Georgiev, Kiril + Zvjaginsev, Vadim + Kasimdzhanov, Rustam + Onischuk, Alexander + Karpov, Anatoly + Rublevsky, Sergei + Motylev, Alexander + Izoria, Zviad = Topalov, Veselin + Kramnik, Vladimir + Svidler, Peter + Adams, Michael + Morozevich, Alexander + Ponomariov, Ruslan + Navara, David + Kamsky, Gata + Bareev, Evgeny + Lautier, Joel + Tiviakov, Sergei + Jakovenko, Dmitry + Bruzon, Lazaro + Bu, Xiangzhi + Volokitin, Andrei.

Explain. 🙂

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is this always true?

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Yes. (It's not their ELO 😉 )

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Couldn't that be anything? Like year or birth, or age, or age when they first kissed a girl or replace letters by numbers or or?
To be honest, I'm too lazy to check any of these 😛

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No, it is something much simpler

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games played? or won? or drawn, lost whatever

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Could it be that both contain exactly the same letters? I tried with "z" and found four on each side.

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with a quick count 'A' is 23 on first side, and 21 on the second, though i could be wrong

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Originally posted by mazziewag
with a quick count 'A' is 23 on first side, and 21 on the second, though i could be wrong
I make it 25 As on both sides.

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Fat Lady 😀

Your solution is correct