FIDE Metrics

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Roger de Coverly
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FIDE Metrics

Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:05 pm

A new report at the FIDE site showing where chess is played as measured by events and players with international ratings.
http://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS ... report.pdf

With the extension of ratings down the playing ability scale, there is a corresponding increase both in head count and events, excluding all play alls, rated.


The figures for Ireland have to be wrong. As a guess Israel or possibly Iceland.

I reckon IRL has about 200 rated players as opposed to the claimed 1528 of the report.

England scores in the top 10 as regards international participation, but I expect the usual presence of SCO, WLS and IRL players boosts the numbers.

Ian Thompson
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Re: FIDE Metrics

Post by Ian Thompson » Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:24 pm

One obvious question, which the report doesn't answer, is whether the counts of tournaments and games include rapidplay and blitz, which have only been rated for about 2 years. If they are included, what would the figures be without them?