Americans suck at chess...why?

you are the unicorn. feck off.

i don't think we need a book to recognize how many americans do not think. 

Sucking at chess is better than that thing some of you suck  (at whatever)

Chess is not a game that is related to big money. Therefore they aren't interested in playing it, especially if they're smart enough to do something more significant.
In the USSR and modern Russia, as well as some other (post-)red countries, you weren't able to find something interesting to do with your free time. Chess was a cheap and safe way to spend it and make some money if you play it well.

In America, I would prefer to play poker rather than an old-fashioned board game with weird rules.

Americans are absolute prodigies.

I do agree… it should be God Bless EVERYWHERE, and I’m American… I can’t stand that ridiculous prideful banter disgracing my Land that I live in! Ridiculous prejudistic garbage . It’s actually extremely embarrassing!

But Americans are absolute prodigies

Lmao of ego ?

We can fix tree like no one else 

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Lmao chainsaw do the proper job there

Is it what they call the most American way to solve problems?!

Duct tape and WD-40

I dont suck at chess I beat magnus Carlson in rapid and Hikaru Nakamura in blitz and the best bullet guy in bullet oh what that's me i guess I beat myself

Let’s just foolishly categorize every nationality, race, and ethnicity in any manner that suits us today. Yes, that will really be fun. Of course, Americans are easy targets for this type of banter. Tomorrow let’s talk about how horrible they are at football. The day after that, we can discuss how they love to stick their noses into every other country’s affairs. 

Lmmfao 😂

…..yes, the government here SUCKS !

I think in the US there simply are too many other interests with far greater return on investment than chess.  Here, there's no role models running around making $20M a year convincing kids to take up chess, but there's loads of them playing football, basketball or baseball.  Even people just making extra money at it, there's simply none.  Even being a High School football coach in your spare time will pay an extra 25% of your teaching salary in many places.   Things like that matter to people encouraging someone young to take up a pasttime. 

Now, the dream of making a living at chess OR sports may be unrealistic either way, but at least a kid could dream at sports.  Where as  in Chess, even if you make it to the top 1 in the world, it still doesn't pay as well as being a college #30 draft pick in ANY sport.  Not to even mention what it pays to  then be successful as a pro if you'd manage that.  

It also doesn't get shown on television.  Nor would it be interesting to 99.9% of people if it were,.  Without TV as an advertising medium,   it won't ever have the popularity of sports.

I also tend to agree with the poster above who mentioned the US school system is abysmal.  That's our government playing a bad joke on this country.  If you don't educate your own children, they will be worthless because the school system certainly isn't going to do it. 

I would also submit that the geography of the US, being so large and sparsely populated (in most areas) vs European countries, really limits the player pool.  For instance, there's not even a chess club I can find within a 1 hour drive of my home. So my opportunity to play any decent competition without traveling far distances, is basically nil.  And without strong competition to play against, I can't see anyone becoming a strong player.  

I believe in Russia, there are schools dedicated to chess that young people can attend.  I don't think that exists here.  Or if there are, they are VERY few.  Russia is also very large and spread out geographically, but the society there places a lot of importance on chess, where here society doesn't.  If you don't encourage this at a very young age, it's unlikely a person will become a GM ever in their life.  Judit Polgar and her sisters are great examples of how that works. 

Let the brain grow with Chess in it.