Virgile Andreani on Nostr: I am quite surprised to see that France has the third highest number of ...
I am quite surprised to see that France has the third highest number of FIDE-registered chess players (88k), after India (112k) and Russia (95k). Spain has quite some too (62k) but then it's far above most other countries including Germany (31k) or the USA (21k) (??) Why is that so?
https://lichess.org/fide/federation#chess #échecs #lichess
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