1) 1200.
2) ?
3) ?
Question #2 down:Not enough to all your questions as the chess game is in recession. I will post a table showing how many players in % of the population are playing chess and for most countries and you will see clearly that major countries, the ones with the largest populations are not interested in chess.
Amazingly the Philippines is a growing country playing chess with only 75 million people, 8% of the population plays chess, the next highest country is about half of this for active chess players.
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1) What is the average USCF rating?
2) How many Masters are there?
a) In the world?
b) In the USA?
c) Players actually born in the USA?
3) Broken down, how many GM's IM's and FM's are there respectively?
a) In the world?
b) In the USA?
c) Players actually born in the USA?