This is a list of every chess player who has ever achieved a

>india
>ukraine
>armenia
>not 3rd world shitholes

another norgayan bragging thread

>>78617758
You're probably still disappointed that Peter Leko managed to lose the final game of the 2004 World Championship.

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>Half the list is jewish
How can my small goy brain even compete

Why are Russians so good at chess?

>>78617857
wrong

Jews only dominated chess until Botvinnik. Since then, there hasn't been a single Jewish world champion, and Jews in general simply aren't that present at the top levels, at least not nearly as much as they used to.

>>78617976
Because it's their national pastime.

>>78617976
The Soviets artificially promoted chess in the USSR and used it as a propaganda tool, and thus they invested a lot in making their players good.

This is also why countries like Ukraine and Armenia are so good at chess.

>>78617979
too busy dominating world politics, media, economics and science to waste time on a silly game probably

>>78618218
or perhaps a certain sudden demographic loss in the mid 20th century affected their ability to be competitive :^^^^^)

After all, the dates actually align quite well.

>>78617650
A lot of them have citizenship with more than one country, for example Fabiano Caruana is American and Italian, ヒカル・ナカムラ used to be Japanese as well but he had to renounce his Japanese passport at 21 years old (by the way he was introduced to chess by his Sri Lankan stepfather and he primarly lives in Naples and Florida now), Anish Kumar Giri is Dutch but he was born in Russia to a Nepalese father and a Russian mother, and he married his Gerogian wife a couple of years ago, etc.

>>78618698
And what about Mexico?

>>78618793
CHI

>>78618698
Nakamura was only Japanese until the age of 2, ever since then he's lived in the US. He doesn't even speak any Japanese (Anish Giri, who's learned Japanese, had to teach him how to write his own name in Japanese).

He might ethnically be half-Japanese, but otherwise he's completely American.

>>78619032
yes, but he actually had double nationality until he turned 21, at which he had to give it up because according to Japanese nationality law people, that for one reason or another got multiple citizenships at birth, are required to choose one or the other