Style of playing by nationality on Chess.com

First, let me tell you this isn't meant to be a racist or discriminating thread, it is just based on observation, which means it's nothing but empirical research, and therefore, science.

Over time, I've noticed that people play in a different way, depending on where they're from. All of this applied no matter the rating I had / the opponent had, from lower ratings, to the rating I currently have.

USA: They're very good players, have very good tactics, but many of them will resign when you're just one step from checkmating them.

India: When I started playing, I expected these people to be really good players, but in fact, I never found them hard to beat. I am missing some logic in their decisions and they forget to make some links between different moves quite often.

Turkey: These people can be good, but I always found them easy to beat as well.

Egypt: Some good players, but lack of strategies during the game.

Saudi Arabia: Very good players, good opponents and exciting matches, but will rarely play until the end if they feel "insulted" by your playing style.

France: Similar to USA, very good tactics but fair players that will stay until the end.

China: I expected these to be really good players, but in reality I find them extremely easy to beat. These people play like robots, they will always take the "logic" and "rational" way when playing, but it's as if they don't have a human side. So if let's say you're tricking them into thinking you made a mistake (so you can checkmate them in one or two moves for example), they will instantly fall for this. The art of persuading someone you did a mistake when you didn't and HOW you do this is a very human thing, and that's where these people quickly lose. Very easy.

Russia: Sometimes good, sometimes less good, slightly below the average I would say.

Australia: Probably the best players I've noticed so far. Excellent tactics and strategies, always very exciting games and often hard to beat players! Very unexpected to me, but now every time I see the Australian flag, I know I have to concentrate (as opposed to say, Chinese players)

That's the countries I see the most and that's how I perceive them. How about you?

I find people from differeing countries know how to move the pieces, and that is all im looking for.

I played a guy from Japan once.  He played a Sakifice.

And like science, to be sure you're not biased, I'm sure you'll compile a list of all the games you've played noting the country and style, gives stats, and then publish it in the forums for review

I've often heard that players from South America like to play very tactical chess. 

I know that this would be the correct way to do it, but no, I've compiled that list in my head only.  But it would actually be an interesting idea to do something like that. Imagine, you would know how you'd have to play depending on who you're matched with (actually that's what I already do, or at least I know what to expect, even if, obviously, not 100% of all players of a specific country behave/play in that certain way).

Ok...stop.  Youre an 1100 player.  You have no need to worry about "how" your opponent plays.  

How am I supposed to target weaknesses against Ethiopians if there are no blanks?

Sounds better in Spanish lol!

This thread is just stupid in nature, so we are gonna derail it.

I personally find it interesting to observe. And like I said, these "stereotypes" applied no matter what rating my opponent & I had, even when my rating was super low (like 300) when I learned to play chess a few months ago.

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sorry. cat likes to sleep on the keyboard

I used to be a waiter. I was certain that people from different countries and cultures were better tippers than others. I realize now that it was just stereotypes. I think you will find that people are people no matter where you go or who you play. I believe that you have come to your conclusions legitimately, but I think it's just coincidence.  

Yes, that's possible too of course.

op,

I agree that there may be playing "styles" among people of different places in the world. But, you seem to be focusing on the playing "strength" of people of different nationalities. The only way I see that one's nationality affects one's playing strength is that it depends on how popular chess is in that society. Basically, the more popular a sport is in a given country, the better players one can expect.

I don't know.

most of this is IMHO bunk. Espacially how "strong" they are...

but I'm sure, slightly, that cultural influences could effect things like

*the inclination to sacrifice a piece that isn't a forced win

*the inclination to resign quickly or fight it out to the last moment

*the tendency to be pleasant in chat

*the inclination to exchange every little thing

* the inclination to take the initative and be aggressive OR

* the inclination to be very defensive about being attacked....

so I think all these tendencies and Much more, might be regional and certainly not national.  for example....

if you played in a very competitive NYC scene perhaps you would be very aggressive- OTOH.   in more rural parts of America perhaps with lesser players like myself;  I have the local expert beat me over and over again... so maybe they would be tendency to be a little timid, passive and defensive.

so.  thats just within America.  think of how many different places and cultures exist within india and russia.

even if you did nothing to rule out  co-incidences; it would still be incredibly hard to make any kind of map of cultural tendency.

in short, Your OP is nothing but a few cliches about a handful of countries.  and there's no real reason to be more thorough about this anyways.

No, the dude is 1100 and he gets paired up with others of the same strenght.

This is just a weird thread.

The guy is just jealous Mexican women are hotter than Austrian women.

I agree with the patzer on this. Good point.