Author: Mark Young
Date: 05:26:06 06/19/01
I. Counties with the highest GM ratings, Regardless of GM population.
II. China has the highest GM Average at 2591.11 with only 9 Grandmasters
No country in the world has GM rating average higher then 2500-2599 elo range,
not even a new chess country like China that has no "old grandmasters".
Some in this forum want to cherry pick data, or build straw dog arguments to try
and reconstruct what a average Grandmaster is, but the data still does not
support their position.
Still I will do the work for them. Since they are too busy, and Cherry Pick the
worst case for our position on what should be considered an average Grandmaster
to determian if computers are now playing at Grandmaster strength.
Since computers are playing over 2600 Elo, and the best GM average any country
can muster is 2591.11 elo (still in the 2500 elo range) I still must consider
the best computers as playing GM strength.
Even under the worst cass Cherry picked data.
Country Average rating GM's Number of GM's
1 China 2591.11 9
2 Ireland 2588.00 1
3 Moldova 2586.00 3
4 India 2584.00 5
5 Bosnia & Herz. 2583.20 5
6 Estonia 2577.50 2
7 Belgium 2577.00 4
8 Brazil 2571.17 6
9 Armenia 2558.08 12
10 Netherlands 2556.33 12
11 Philippines 2551.33 3
12 Denmark 2550.86 7
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