Peter Varley <[log in to unmask]> writes: >I think there's a misunderstanding here. The composers listed were >*either* chess-players *or* mathematicians. It's not really surprising >that the ones who were mathematicians were excessively mathematical, is it? No, but I gathered that the hope was to show that nearly all composers have either a mathematical or a chess-playing bet. I'll agree that Prokofiev doesn't fit the mold so far (but neither does Rimsky-Korsakov or Borodin, whose names also came up). So maybe we are making progress toward that end. - seb