Azerbaijan has come very close to Germany in the chess ranking of countries.
Idman.biz reports that the International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced the chess ranking calculated based on the average score of the first ten chess players of each country.
As of the beginning of May, Azerbaijan had 2631 points, which allowed it to maintain the sixth place. Our country is only one point behind Germany, while last month this difference was equal to three points.
Although Ukraine also scored 2631 points, it lags behind Azerbaijan in terms of the number of grandmasters.
Top ten strongest countries in chess:
1. USA (2730)
2. India (2727)
3. China (2675)
4. Russia (2665)
5. Germany (2632)
6. Azerbaijan (2631)
7. Ukraine (2631)
8. Hungary (2624)
9. France (2623)
10. Spain (2618)
In the women's chess ranking, Azerbaijan completes the top "ten" of world rankings with 2319 points. The places are distributed as follows:
1. China (2487)
2. India (2415)
3. Ukraine (2390)
4. Russia (2376)
5. Georgia (2370)
6. Poland (2363)
7. France (2341)
8. Germany (2339)
9. USA (2338)
10. Azerbaijan (2319)
Idman.biz
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