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I noticed recently that at country FIDE ranking for Canada, we tie at 45-6th (with Turkey). Counting up (by hand), I get Canada as being listed at approx. tied 20th-21st for most titled players by country with 119. Does anyone know how long we've been this high up in regards to that statistic (which FIDE has not yet charted as an archived listing)? Can anyone answer similar questions if norms are included?
Seems that FIDE has recently been rating many more of our games & tournaments - & thought I'd investigate it a bit more when I saw them rank http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2600129 (amongst others) at an under 2000 in the http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml...=2&country=CAN listing (I'd been a bit surprised to not see Iulia Lacau ranked there - until I checked Romania nationality listing).
Some other statistics for active titled players: http://ratings.fide.com/avgtoplist.phtml?country=CAN - which included a number of 497 for total FIDE charted players within their Zone over the past few years. I had guessed that the 497 had seemed a bit low, given that they were charting down to ~1600 rating. I wonder what conditions FIDE uses to determine when they take notice of adding a Zonal (ie Canada being the Canadian Zonal listing for FIDE) listed player to the main listings, as it would eventually be somewhat nice for FIDE to eventually chart just one version of the listing.
Comparing to the Russian federation statistics is here: http://ratings.fide.com/avgtoplist.phtml?country=RUS . I once overheard a GM at a tournament state that even though some of his opponents were unrated on the FIDE lists, he still had thought some "experts" were of "IM" (or better) calibre, or at least something to that effect a few years ago. 2 decades after having very few titled players, growth seems to have arisen, & I had just thought to ask whether international chess on the Canadian circuit is the one experiencing a higher than usual rate of growth recently.
Cheers,
Kai
Seems that FIDE has recently been rating many more of our games & tournaments - & thought I'd investigate it a bit more when I saw them rank http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2600129 (amongst others) at an under 2000 in the http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml...=2&country=CAN listing (I'd been a bit surprised to not see Iulia Lacau ranked there - until I checked Romania nationality listing).
Some other statistics for active titled players: http://ratings.fide.com/avgtoplist.phtml?country=CAN - which included a number of 497 for total FIDE charted players within their Zone over the past few years. I had guessed that the 497 had seemed a bit low, given that they were charting down to ~1600 rating. I wonder what conditions FIDE uses to determine when they take notice of adding a Zonal (ie Canada being the Canadian Zonal listing for FIDE) listed player to the main listings, as it would eventually be somewhat nice for FIDE to eventually chart just one version of the listing.
Comparing to the Russian federation statistics is here: http://ratings.fide.com/avgtoplist.phtml?country=RUS . I once overheard a GM at a tournament state that even though some of his opponents were unrated on the FIDE lists, he still had thought some "experts" were of "IM" (or better) calibre, or at least something to that effect a few years ago. 2 decades after having very few titled players, growth seems to have arisen, & I had just thought to ask whether international chess on the Canadian circuit is the one experiencing a higher than usual rate of growth recently.
Cheers,
Kai