Our wonderful world

Ladies and gentlemen, the world is divided into rich and poor, that is, rich and poor countries. And it is easy to classify this in chess. In Europe or the USA, every chess player has a computer or laptop.

We point this out because it is here (on the Goldchess website) that you need a computer to participate in online tournaments.

So yes. In 3rd world countries, one in 10 chess players has a laptop. In 4th world countries, one in a hundred.

In 5th world countries, one in a thousand. Get your bearings and you’ll know what country you live in and how far you are from real civilisation. I’m not going to make a list and order here now, I’ll just say that two well chess-developed countries, India and Russia, are at the far tail in this classification.