They only put the questions to 100 people, and we don't know how representative of the population at large they are. If (quite a big 'if') the 100 were reasonably representative, I'd say that the numbers for the two most popular answers are quite encouraging, since they suggest that about half the population at least know the basics.David Robertson wrote:Really? That means c. 600,000 British people did know! Halve it to eliminate children, the insane, and obsessive football supporters. That makes 300,000 Brits who have heard of FIDE. Frankly, this is alarming!Ian Thompson wrote:...not at all surprised that only 1% knew of FIDE
As an example of what an educated person might know, my fiancée (who knows how to play, but no more) knew about FIDE, but then you'd expect something to have rubbed off after four years with me. She didn't get Deep Blue and struggled to recall Bobby Fischer. The other two were easy for her. Maybe the 100 people are at the intelligent end of the spectrum - I don't know.