Hi all,

I was looking at the website for the Moscow Open, and I looked at the list of competitors. Naturally, there are several Russians, but I was saddened to see only 3 Americans in the tournament.

That got me wondering: how diverse is this forum? I assume that most here are from Europe, but I could be wrong...

Question:
Where do you come from?

Choices:
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America

 

Antarctica?! Lets see how many votes does it get

Well, there are some some research stations there. Some of those people at those stations might play chess...

quote:

Originally posted by KHollister:
Well, there are some some research stations there. Some of those people at those stations might play chess...

Playing chess is a polar storm!!

+1 Europe here. UK actually.

Is there an option of putting a sub-poll to see the main country constituents, my guess would be USA, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Russia.

P.S. Australia is a country, if you want the continent you need to change it to Oceania. Wikipedia Article

I am suprised to see australia romping ahead at the moment.

+1 for europe here, UK to be a little more precise

Wasn't Oceania the name of a country in George Orwell's 1984?

Actually, here in the U.S., Australia refers to both the country and the continent -- or at least it did when I learned the continents.

But then again, I went to a public school...

UK here, as the reference to the "Cold North Sea" in my sig suggests, I live in the North East coast region of the UK.

quote:

Originally posted by Pigface1973:
I am suprised to see australia romping ahead at the moment.

Take a good look again



Australia is a country and also the name of the continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_%28continent%29

Oceania is the region (but it's also sometime used as a name of the continent)

To be honest this is a bit of a moot point as there are so many ways of naming the continents, as on this page one of the opening sentences says "Australia" is a continent, but later on contradicts itself in the table when scrolling down by saying that Oceania is the correct term.

I just say Oceania as it is the general term for that whole area and everyone (who I know at least) understands when I say Oceania (which I admit doesn't happen very often).

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ebutaljib:
Take a good look again

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Tut... oh yea ...

Europe here. Finland to be precise.
@ BTOG46`s "Cold North Sea"
I must add "The very cold Gulf of Finland"

Another Brit here!
(But living and working in Spain)So perhaps I'm European now!?

North America: Chicago, IL USA

russia here

United States, Oregon.


Don't judge me because I'm American.

I'm from South Africa...could be the only one so far, lol

Southern United States here. Bad chess player, but still having fun.

Melaka, Malaysia

Oregon also! EternallyIgnora, these rainy months aren't so bad with a nice distraction such as CMXI!