Can you name the countries with most living chess grandmasters? by mswlhljtp

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Countries with Most Chess Grandmasters Quiz

by mswlhljtp

Created Nov 1, 2009 in Geography
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	Brobert2:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 22:33 GMT	-1 points
	"England" is not a sovereign state. The answer should be "United Kingdom," with England accepted as an alternate answers. Otherwise, it's unfair to ask us to guess "countries," as the only part of the world where England is formally referred to as a "country" is within the United Kingdom itself.

	mswlhljtp:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 22:42 GMT	1 point
	FIDE, who award the Grandmaster titles and produce these statistics, list England, Scotland and Wales as separate countries because they compete separately on the national stage. However, to avoid confusion I will add Scotland's six grandmasters to England's total to make a "UK" figure.

	PastaFreak:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 23:17 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz! UK should be accepted for United Kingdom.

	vixinu:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 23:23 GMT	0 points
	Please accept UK

	jesus:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 23:26 GMT	-1 points
	@Brobert2: Its not only referred to as a country in the UK. Other places refer to England as a country. What about sports such as football and rugby?

	Archer16:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 00:29 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz - I'm a chess tutor and this was challenging. Interesting that the two least guessed atm are the Olympic champions the the runners-up, while the newly crowned European champions don't even make the cut.

	zoopy:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 14:32 GMT	1 point
	does serbia include any from kosovo and montenegro?

	mswlhljtp:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 14:29 GMT	2 points
	Montenegro is listed seperately on the FIDE list so I would guess not. At first glance I can't find Kosovo on there though. Why do you ask? Peculiarly, with the 125th highest average rating, there seems to be a country called "FIDE"?!

	jamesf:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:28 GMT	2 points
	Novel idea, and really interesting - thank you.

	esumid:	Apr 1st, 2010 at 12:54 GMT	1 point
	It is interesting that the chess homeland (Persia/Iran) does not appear here.

	cuendillar:	Apr 23rd, 2010 at 08:48 GMT	1 point
	Wow, no Azerbaijan. Apparently, having three players in the top 15 doesn't even guarantee 20 GMs in total.

	LordLombardi:	May 20th, 2010 at 06:19 GMT	6 points
	Can't believe nobody has played the bad pun card yet --> I was hoping the "Check" Republic would be on here ;)

	Jazzer32:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 00:39 GMT	1 point
	Proud to be Serb, only 7 Million people and 5th in the world (at number of GM). Old Yugoslavia prolly was 2nd (just behind USSR) with 24 Million people.

	jim995:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:50 GMT	1 point
	quite a few former soviet countries...thank the old soviet chess machine

	jim995:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:51 GMT	1 point
	also, admittingly different regions of the uk (like england and wales) have seperate sports teams (like soccer), they are still under one federal government and do not have the characteristics of a true country.

	Kevin:	Dec 11th, 2011 at 18:54 GMT	1 point
	England is a member of FIDE (as are Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Guernsey etc) so the answer is correct. So they count as separate countries according to FIDE.