Chess equation

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. 🙂

is this always true?

Yes. (It's not their ELO 😉 )

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 😛

No, it is something much simpler

games played? or won? or drawn, lost whatever

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

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

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.

Fat Lady 😀

Your solution is correct