{"id":308,"date":"2011-06-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2011-06-07T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:00:48","slug":"which-countries-are-successful-at-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/which-countries-are-successful-at-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Countries are Successful at Chess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/060711_0359_whichcountr1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessbase.com\/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7255http:\/\/www.chessbase.com\/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7255\">Leung Weiwen<\/a>, an undergraduate at Singapore Management University found that there was a relationship between a country&#8217;s population, GDP per capita and how well the country did at chess. Some of the findings of the paper include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Armenia, Georgia and Moldova are the clearest outliers. Their players do a lot better than their population size or GDP per capita would suggest.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea, the Bahamas and Guyana do a lot worse than their population size or GDP per capita would suggest<\/li>\n<li>At best, population size and GDP can only explain about 40% of a country&#8217;s success at Chess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the full paper over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessbase.com\/news\/2011\/Explaining%20Chess%20Success.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessbase.com\/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7255\">Chessbase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/06\/assorted-links-119.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leung Weiwen, an undergraduate at Singapore Management University found that there was a relationship between a country&#8217;s population, GDP per capita and how well the country did at chess. Some of the findings of the paper include: Armenia, Georgia and Moldova are the clearest outliers. Their players do a lot better than their population size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}