Number of titled players per country

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watcha

Nov 23, 2015

rank	country	points	all titled	GM	IM	WGM	FM	WIM	CM	WFM
1	RUS	33595	2340	217	505	44	1079	99	13	368
2	GER	15509	1274	87	245	16	760	38	57	69
3	USA	11768	671	85	127	12	323	27	36	34
4	UKR	11456	510	85	190	22	143	33	3	34
5	SRB	7800	541	49	113	13	306	17	9	33
6	ESP	7511	554	46	109	2	317	12	40	28
7	HUN	7162	429	48	113	8	210	16	6	24
8	FRA	7063	394	49	104	5	193	17	8	18
9	POL	5921	356	40	99	13	128	26	14	31
10	IND	5346	287	39	88	7	51	27	27	32
11	NED	5130	317	34	79	4	156	13	22	9
12	ISR	5003	176	41	53	3	60	9	2	5
13	ENG	4750	255	35	55	3	103	11	32	11
14	CZE	4559	281	30	76	6	131	11	10	17
15	CHN	4334	142	37	31	18	25	14	3	12
16	CRO	4296	240	30	57	3	129	9	3	9
17	BUL	4122	136	34	52	4	21	12	1	10
18	ARM	4061	106	36	27	3	25	8	3	3
19	ARG	3554	255	21	73	1	122	12	11	12
20	GEO	3295	120	27	37	9	17	13		17
21	CUB	3292	274	20	41	8	134	12	3	51
22	ROU	3278	245	19	71	9	98	12	4	32
23	SWE	2856	164	20	37		80	8	16	3
24	AZE	2794	119	23	22	10	24	6	11	14
25	ITA	2394	221	12	42		142	1	12	12
26	KAZ	2178	141	15	31	7	46	6	6	24
27	BLR	2145	94	17	24	4	25	4		20
28	BRA	2053	199	11	32		92	9	37	8
29	CAN	1981	177	11	35		82	11	14	11
30	AUT	1950	224	7	47	1	138	3	17	10
31	GRE	1884	116	13	22	3	58	7	3	9
32	PHI	1849	87	14	27		22	9	4	10
33	DEN	1819	126	11	34		69	3	4	5
34	NOR	1747	116	11	29	2	60	5	7	2
35	SLO	1654	110	11	22	3	52	5	3	13
36	SVK	1578	107	10	26	2	55	2	1	9
37	ISL	1552	53	13	11	1	26	1		1
38	SUI	1505	136	7	37	3	79	1		9
39	IRI	1413	79	10	19	3	34	4	1	8
40	BIH	1400	90	9	21	2	53	1	1	3
41	VIE	1376	146	9	13	4	20	12	24	38
42	UZB	1369	60	11	10	2	23	6	2	6
43	COL	1368	183	5	33	2	62	15	38	14
44	TUR	1339	123	8	20	2	47	3	15	7
45	MEX	1275	202	4	30		66	13	46	12
46	LAT	1249	49	10	13	5	13	4		4
47	BEL	1234	94	7	23		58		2	4
48	AUS	1126	148	4	30	1	45	13	37	14
49	MKD	1112	45	9	9		22	1		4
50	FIN	1104	109	5	20		78	1	1	3

watcha

Nov 23, 2015

Title values used to calculate points : GM - 100 pts , IM - 10 pts , WGM - 6 pts , FM - 5 pts , WIM - 4 pts , CM - 3 pts , WFM - 2 pts , WCM - 1 pt..

( WCMs are counted and are part of the table, but they did not fit in the view )

The ordering of titles reflects the average rating of players holding those titles.

GMs were given disproportionally high score, so that the table is in most part ordered by the number of GMs.

Sai

Nov 23, 2015

PHI means Philippines?

watcha

Nov 23, 2015

Fide country codes are cryptic, so I make no judgement on what they mean, but I can give you the top players under country code 'PHI' in the Fide players list:

rank	active rank	name	title	women title	rating	country	sex	age
1	1	Barbosa, Oliver	GM		2521	PHI	M	29
2	2	Gomez, John Paul	GM		2512	PHI	M	29
3	3	Paragua, Mark	GM		2510	PHI	M	31
4	4	Sanchez, Joseph	GM		2504	PHI	M	45
5	5	Sadorra, Julio Catalino	GM		2501	PHI	M	29
6	6	Antonio, Rogelio Jr	GM		2478	PHI	M	53
7	7	Laylo, Darwin	GM		2471	PHI	M	35
8	8	Torre, Eugenio	GM		2468	PHI	M	64
9	9	Pascua, Haridas	IM		2462	PHI	M	22
10		Datu, Idelfonso	IM		2457	PHI	M	43

MSC157

Nov 23, 2015

Interesting. What about per population?

Sai

Nov 23, 2015

@watcha

Yes they are the Philippine masters. I will have my name in that list someday.

watcha

Nov 23, 2015

MSC157 wrote:

Interesting. What about per population?

I had this stats two years ago as GMs per capita.

It turned out that Iceland has the most GMs per capita and I was advised to get a warm cap and move to Iceland. So no more per capita figures from me.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/gm-s-per-capita-worldwide-1-iceland2

By the way Slovenia was 8th on that list.

watcha

Nov 23, 2015

What surprises me most in this list is that despite Germany has a very heavy presence in titled players and GMs in particular, the same is not felt when you look at 2700chess.com's super GM list. Germany is not a chess super power, unlike Russia, USA and Ukraine which are top ranked on this list.

watcha

Nov 30, 2015

Some follow up stats.

I was wondering if there is a connection between the points countries got for their titled players and the average rating in the respective countries.

There is some, but not much:

If you do the same thing for GMs, then surprisingly, the correlation is even slightly negative, the more GMs you have, the less the average rating in your country:

The only very strong positive correlation is between the number of GMs and titled players, the more titled players you have, the more GMs you produce:

watcha

Nov 30, 2015

#10

Its good that I posted these images, because it did let me discover a bug. I used maps to store (x,y) value pairs for drawing the charts, as I handled them as proper functions, but with GMs for a given x ( number of GMs ) there can be several different y-s ( average ratings ), so it is not a proper function any more.

If I correct this, then the average rating is positively correlated with the number of GMs, as expected:

fabelhaft

Nov 30, 2015

#11

It's funny that for example Azerbaijan is behind Sweden but still have Mamedyarov, Radjabov, recently Gashimov, now Naiditsch and also some guys like Mamedov and Safarli that are quite strong. Sweden doesn't have at all the same top in spite of being ranked ahead here.

fabelhaft

Nov 30, 2015

#12

A similar relation a bit higher up in the table is Serbia vs France. Serbia is placed very high in spite of not having any player even close to the level of Vachier-Lagrave, Bacrot, Fressinet etc for many years.

watcha

Nov 30, 2015

#13

This is what I get if I only allow >2650 rated GMs, and sort countries according to their number ( I think this list is more in line with what you would normally think of the chess strength of countries ). Countries are judged by the tip of the iceberg. The OP shows the under water part of the iceberg.

rank	country	SGM ( >2650 )
1	RUS	26
2	CHN	9
3	UKR	7
4	USA	6
5	FRA	6
6	HUN	6
7	IND	6
8	ENG	5
9	AZE	5
10	ISR	4
11	POL	3
12	ARM	3
13	GER	2
14	BUL	2
15	CZE	2
16	CUB	2
17	NOR	2
18	LAT	2
19	SRB	1
20	ESP	1
21	NED	1
22	CRO	1
23	GEO	1
24	BLR	1
25	CAN	1
26	DEN	1
27	UZB	1
28	VIE	1
29	AUT	1
30	PER	1