Chess.com claims that chess is particularly popular in Ireland

Pete Morriss · 2023-03-24 14:20:34

Today's Guardian has a column by Leonard Barden that says, inter alia, that chess.com claims that over 5% of the Irish population played on chess.com in January, which is the fifth highest proportion in the world. This claim seems surprising to me and I can't find it on chess.com. Maybe there is a diaspora effect, in that…

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Today's Guardian has a column by Leonard Barden that says, inter alia, that chess.com claims that over 5% of the Irish population played on chess.com in January, which is the fifth highest proportion in the world. This claim seems surprising to me and I can't find it on chess.com. Maybe there is a diaspora effect, in that the number of people claiming to be Irish is much higher than the Republic's population? Or has Ireland really gone chess mad?

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