>>>Speaking about having mixed emotions about results of the Germany-Italy game <g>
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>>Are you a fan of any Ukraine's team in any sport?
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>>I'm only fan of Irina Sluzkaja (? spell) in figure skating and Garry Kasparov in chess, but I haven't seen chess results on TV while living here in US...
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>The English spelling is Slutskaya, which IMO is one of the great sports names of all time.
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>You're right, the U.S. airways are not overrun with chess matches. They must think we couldn't stand the excitement ;-)

I wonder why Americans are not interested in chess? In my time in Russia chess champions were well known. Even some checkers champions (I used to play checkers professionally) were known. May be because there were no American champions except Bobby Fisher?