Lyudmil is above 3000, or he would be under certain conditions, not sure now. But he should be, at least.
According to FIDE, the average rating of the top 10 Bulgarian players...
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Not a very popular topic, I see...
Perhaps they were thinking of this during games instead of analyzing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QGWtRgGFSc
JamesColeman wrote:
This has been going on for a year or so, when some corruption scandal involving the Bulgarian Chess federation caused them to be excluded from FIDE. If you did move to Bulgaria and adopt that nationality, you'd play under the FIDE flag. Still behind Topalov, sorry
Not sure how that 1500 guy slipped through the net.
So are a bunch of other countries also involved in similar scandals? The numbers for basically all of the countries at the bottom of the list are highly unrealistic.
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I saw who posted it. I was hooked.
I saw it was not a troll thread. (Or at least not a very obi ours one). I was disappointed.
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Except I do not expect better. very interesting topic!
... is 1505. Take a look at this list of countries by average rating of the top 10 players on FIDE's official website, and scroll down to the bottom, where you will find Bulgaria in the 174th spot:
https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml
Let me remind everyone that Veselin Topalov is Bulgarian. The same list indicates that the country has 6 titled players, including 2 GMs (is the other one Cheparinov or Stephanova?) and 3 IMs (plus Ivanov?). Meanwhile, the average rating of the top 10 players in the country is apparently 1505. So... I guess if I were to move to Bulgaria, I would be the 7th best player there?
The list, by the way, also says that Macau has 11 titled players, and the average rating of the top 10 players in the region is 1422. Apparently the people who complain about FIDE giving out titles too casually nowadays have a point.