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Re:Peter Thiel & Garry Kasparov by beefman on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:57PM (#2071989)
Who knew he played chess (and at the Master level)?
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Re:Peter Thiel & Garry Kasparov by zck on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @05:11PM (#2072735)
You didn't know Kasparov played chess?

Seriously, though, from what I can tell, Thiel is rated 2199[1], which isn't Master level. That's still enough to be the 21,246th best player in the world.

[1] http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2022389

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Re:Peter Thiel & Garry Kasparov by beefman on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @07:21PM (#2073213)
He is a Life Master

http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/MbrDtlMain.php?120...

(As a U.S. resident, he probably hasn't had much exposure to FIDE-rated events... and in fact his FIDE profile says only 10 games)

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