Are indians good chess players
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Some people with blonde hair are police officers... are all police officers people with blonde hair? 
Are you are asking whether 1.3 billion people are good chess players? Or rather their mean chess playing ability? Or the median? Or maybe if 51% are above the rest of the world's average tournament player rating (whether mean or median)? Or whether they are above tournament average rating for active players (whatever parameter you like to define "active")? Or if the mean, median, or 51% rule(s) applies only to players who actively study and compete in FIDE rated tournaments (need to define actively)? Or some sort of pan-analysis with all of them in a nice Excel-type table? Do you mean Indians from India? Or the racist terms applied to natives of lands such as the Americas? Anand was a world champ, but I beat a 1300+ rated kid who was 10 years old for second place in a local tournament several months ago. Does that help?
Yes, all 1.3 billion of India's population are uniformly good chess players. Doesn't everybody know that?
Jun 8, 2017
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#6
to play good chess you need to possess certain type of chess skill and not necessarily are those coming from india.According to me, we indian people are ignorant to the world and so nothing goes inside our brain until we face it .The abstract ideas remains abstract and it need to come out somehow.
- Chess and Yoga was originated from India that is true.
- But National game of India is hockey.
- Cricket is the most popular game for Indian people.
- As of I know India government is not promoting Chess (I mean No special consideration for chess rather than other games).
- Personally I found good players in India & Russia.
- Good players are every where in the word.
Yes
Jun 8, 2017
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#9
Depends on what you call good. Anand was good. He single-handedly beat Krammnik. Pentala is also very good in recent tournaments. I would say yes to the topic question. However, Indians like Anand weren't as talented as Fischer or Kasparov. Heck, even 50 year-old Karpov beat him!
Jun 8, 2017
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#10
I think Cochise and Geronimo were among the best. I knew a guy named Jimmy who was pretty good who was a member of the little-known Piscataway tribe in Maryland.
Jun 8, 2017
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#11
It depends. There are many who never caught up on changes to the game after it became popular in Europe -- castling and moving the pawn two squares on the first move. But it's certainly more popular in Indian culture than the U.S.
I know its difficult to sneak up on em from behind. 
Jun 8, 2017
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#13
LOL. I thought that he was Indian as well when I first saw him due to his name and skin color(no offense). I didn't know that he was half-Nepali and born in Russia.
That is like asking if they are good spellers!!....oh wait
TKS to (ahem) som people😀
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sorry IDK y is there double
The previous world champions in chess were from India. according to my coach, chess was invented in India... also were some of the superb players come from.