Are indians good chess players

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Falconshot33

He can be here if he's 10. I'm 12

dannyhume
hari2017 wrote:
dannyhume wrote:

Are you are asking whether 1.3 billion people are good chess players? Or rather their mean chess playing ability? Or the median? Or maybe if 51% are above the rest of the world's average tournament player rating (whether mean or median)? Or whether they are above tournament average rating for active players (whatever parameter you like to define "active")? Or if the mean, median, or 51% rule(s) applies only to players who actively study and compete in FIDE rated tournaments (need to define actively)? Or some sort of pan-analysis with all of them in a nice Excel-type table? Do you mean Indians from India? Or the racist terms applied to natives of lands such as the Americas? Anand was a world champ, but I beat a 1300+ rated kid who was 10 years old for second place in a local tournament several months ago. Does that help?

Term "American Indian" is not racist, smartass. Some of them actually prefer it over "Native", which is quite new. It's a name. That nation didn't even know where they were (geographically, continent, etc) at the time that name was attributed to them.

 

Oh, I see ... "alternative" facts.  How old is the Earth did you say?

 

gaoryan

Why are we getting into these off-topic questions. This is supposed to be a discussion about the fact that Indians are good chess players or not.

 

sunnit

So many Americans commenting!! [profanity removed - David] invaders, racists, murderers, terrorists.

chessgm003

YES

ThomasMadappattu

May be a select few will be very good at it. India is just like any other country, some are good and some are not. 

Cabolanao

Some are better than others, that's a fact.

The_Phenominal

Sure Indians are usually very good in chess because they play it for fun. Your coaches which are definitely have good knowledge and if they said it trust it. Normally they don't play that much but when they look at this game seriously they are really great at it. That is why you can see how much online players are from India. Vishwanathan Anand is the best thing happen in Indian modern chess the first official FIDE Grand Master of India and the first World Chess Champion of India. Now you can see many titled players are coming from India. Child prodigies are nowadays in India playing phenomenal games that is mysterious thing only.

Federal_romzy

laurel_tan wrote:

The previous world champions in chess were from India. according to my coach, chess was invented in India... also were some of the superb players come from.

wow.... that's nice but other countries like Ukraine China united states have overthrow them

Pat_Zurr

Stereotype:A standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment

Anonymous_Dragon
Anish_A wrote:
  • Chess and Yoga was originated from India that is true.
  • But National game of India is hockey.  
  • Cricket is the most popular game for Indian people.
  • As of I know India government is not promoting Chess (I mean No special consideration for chess rather than other games).
  • Personally I found good players in India & Russia.
  • Good players are every where in the word.

 

India doesn't have any national game

llama47
laurel_tan wrote:

Are indians good chess players

no

k700i

i have been playing with many people from different countries , but indians were the best of all ... for sure , respect to them

k700i

so challenge me wink.png

llama47
llama47 wrote:
laurel_tan wrote:

Are indians good chess players

no

Weird comment.

llama47

Yeah, I don't really know what I was going for there... maybe trying to fight with the OP? I don't remember this topic or that comment.

mpaetz

     Indians are no better or worse chess players that people from any other country. A lesser % of India's population plays chess than is the case in some other nations, so there are fewer Indian GMs per capita than in other places. Europeans came up with the innovations in chess (queens and bishops and rooks moving more freely, castling and more) that made it a better game about 500 years ago so Europe is where more people are interested in chess. Fifty years ago there were no top Indian or Chinese chess GMs but today chess has become much more popular there and those nations produce their fair share of top players. The San Francisco Bay Area (where I live) is home to many people of South Asian and East Asian descent, and tournaments I have played in here recently might lead you to believe that most young chess enthusiasts are Asian. It's just a matter of making chess available--the pleasures of the game sell themselves.

2Kf21-0

no

MarkCi

FFS, there are over a billion people in India. This question is pretty racist.

llama47

I'm confused... are you saying if there were fewer people would it be more racist, or less racist?