What percentile of chess players now GM?

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the_johnjohn

Mar 30, 2017

urk wrote:

Less than that.

There are "only 725 active GMs with a GM qualifying rating of 2500 or more" in the world.

And there are how many hundreds of millions of chessplayers in the world?

https://becomingachessmaster.com/2015/08/05/chess-ratings-distribution/

And yet amazingly, several people who post in the forums here are future GMs!

You sure? Last time I checked it was around 1500. Still compared to the amount of players in the world...