fide - Which countries have the most GMs per capita? - Chess Stack Exchange

This interesting site has a "World map of chess grandmasters" which looks like this: Apart from the fact that Russia is very wide (it looks like it crosses 10 time zones), it looks like

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A CHECKERED HISTORY: WHY ARMENIA DOMINATES THE CHESS WORLD - Republic of Armenia - HyeForum

fide - Which countries have the most GMs per capita? - Chess Stack Exchange

How many chess grandmasters are there in the world? - Quora

European countries ranked by average rating of top players normalized by population. : r/chess

Computer chess - Wikipedia

International Chess Federation on X: The world map of Grandmasters per capita, based on the stats from the FIDE database. 🌐♟️ You can see that European countries have the highest concentration of

Inhabitants per chess grandmaster (FIDE) : r/MapPorn

Are Chess Grandmasters good at mathematics, or are they very distinct skills? - Quora

Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)