The decline of chess in the UK
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:36 am
The site claims that England does not rank in the top 30. Rubbish. It is in 12th place on the FIDE country rankings.Sean Evans wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03b5ft6
https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml
Those rankings are the average of the top 10 players. England does even better if you consider only the top 5 players, because only 5 countries have 5 players with a rating above 2660, and England is one of them.