12 July 2008

Who Was Numero Uno?

In Structure of the FIDE ID, I noted that 'the ID is a one to three digit numeric federation ID, followed by a five digit player ID for players within that federation'. So who was assigned number 1 ('00001') in each federation.

No one! The lowest number assigned to any player was 10 ('00010'). The following table shows which player received the first FIDE ID for the 20 federations having the most players on the 1999 list.

ARG; 2551; Campora, Daniel H.; g; 100013
AUT; 2425; Klinger, Josef; g; 1600010
CRO; 2493; Hulak, Krunoslav; g; 14500060
CZE; 2525; Smejkal, Jan; g; 300020
DEN; 2608; Hansen, Curt; g; 1400010
ENG; 2600; Nunn, John D.M.; g; 400017
ESP; 2585; Illescas Cordoba, Miguel; g; 2200015
FRA; 2613; Lautier, Joel; g; 600016
GER; 2585; Huebner, Robert Dr.; g; 4600010
HUN; 2582; Ribli, Zoltan; g; 700010
IND; 2784; Anand, Viswanathan; g; 5000017
ITA; 2461; Braga, Fernando; m; 800015
NED; 2649; Timman, Jan H; g; 1000012
POL; 2237; Rawski, Slawomir; -; 1100017
ROM; 2450; Gheorghiu, Florin; g; 1200011
RUS; 2812; Kasparov, Gary; g; 4100018
SWE; 2623; Andersson, Ulf; g; 1700014
UKR; 2714; Ivanchuk, Vassily; g; 14100010
USA; 2720; Kamsky, Gata; g; 2000024
YUG; 2571; Ljubojevic, Ljubomir; g; 900010

Who was Slawomir Rawski of Poland?

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