Ranking list Chess

1886 - 2005

Chess World Champions (Men, Women, Youth) per 1 mill. inhabitants

List of Chess World Champions (since 1886 in continuity of person since Wilhelm Steinitz
[Wladimir Kramnik 14th World Champion]), World Champions Women,
Youth Chess World Championship since 1951 (according to  Wikipedia und FIDE)

cp. ranking list  intellect

Position

Country

Chess World Champions per 1 million inhabitants

1

Iceland

3.60

2

Armenia

0.60

3

Bulgaria

0.40

4

Cuba

0.27

5

Israel

0.24

6

Yugoslavia

0.22

7

Puerto Rico

0.20

8

Hungary

0.20

9

Denmark

0.20

10

Switzerland

0.16

12

Azerbaijan

0.13

13

Argentina

0.11

14

Czech Republic

0.10

15

Sovjetunion/Russia

0.09

16

Netherlands

0.07

Sources: Wikipedia, FIDE, Stand: June 2005

21. France (0,02), 22. Great Britain (0,02)

The ranking list has been compiled in the best of one‘s knowledge. For the completeness and for the total correctness of contents of this ranking list cannot be taken over guarantee.