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Purpose
To collect observations about the statistics of the world chess championship (regarding human players only with no external helps during games).
Candidate Players according to country
It is interesting to see the statistics of the country distribution from candidate players according to the country of origin. Considering only the cases where candidates qualify from qualification tournaments in a sort of "final tournament before the last match". So ignoring chess championship where the champion accepts the challenger. Although qualifications path sometimes were questionable, it is the best that was produced at that time.
This will likely show a trend. Now in chess it is relatively easy (compared to other competitive sport) to change allegiance from a country or another, but it doesn't happen often that strong players switch federations or countries so it is another index to show the state of the chess maturity of a country. If the chess competition is advanced, the country produces also players that can win qualification tournaments. Although this is less and less true with an interconnected world where actually one should start to consider groups of countries if those are small enough and share many properties together.
If equal amount of players, sorted alphabetically
2018 FIDE
- 3 Russia
- 2 USA
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Azerbaijan
- 1 China
- 1 Norway (has the champion)
2016 FIDE
- 2 Russia
- 2 USA (0.5 Italy with a player switching to the USA)
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 India
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Norway (has the champion)
2014 FIDE
- 4 Russia
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Azerbaijan
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 India
- 1 Norway (has the champion)
2013 FIDE
- 3 Russia
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Azerbaijan
- 1 India (has the champion)
- 1 Israel
- 1 Norway
- 1 Ukraine
2012 FIDE
- 2 Russia
- 2 Azerbaijan
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 India (has the champion)
- 1 Israel
- 1 USA
2010 FIDE
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 India (has the champion)
- 1 USA (poor Kamsky. His father was a ultra toxic figure for too long)
2007 FIDE
- 4 Russia (has the champion)
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Hungary
- 1 India
- 1 Israel
2005 FIDE
- 2 Hungary
- 2 Russia
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 England
- 1 India
- 1 Uzbekistan (has the champion)
2004 alternative to FIDE
- 3 Russia (has the champion)
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 Germany
- 1 England
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Israel
- 1 Spain
2004 FIDE (from top 8 to final plus previous champion)
- 2 Russia
- 1 Armenia
- 1 Azerbaijan
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 Cuba
- 1 England
- 1 Ukraine (has the champion, didn't play)
- 1 Uzbekistan
2002 FIDE (from top 8 to final plus previous champion)
- 2 Russia
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 France
- 1 India (has the champion)
- 1 Israel
- 1 Spain
2000 FIDE (from top 8 to final plus previous champion)
- 3 Russia (has the champion)
- 1 Bulgaria
- 1 England
- 1 France
- 1 India
- 1 Spain
2000 alternative to FIDE
- Qualifications overturned. Not considered
1999 FIDE (from top 8 to final plus previous champion)
- 3 Russia (has the champion, he didn't play)
- 2 Armenia
- 1 England
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Romania
- 1 Spain
1998 FIDE (from top 8 to final plus previous champion)
- 2 England
- 2 Russia (has the champion)
- 1 Belarus
- 1 India
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Poland
- 1 Spain
1996 FIDE final knockouts
- 4 Russia (has the champion)
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Belarus
- 1 England
- 1 France
- 1 Germany
- 1 India
- 1 Israel
- 1 USA
1995 altenative to FIDE (final knockouts)
- 3 Russia (has the champion)
- 2 England
- 2 USA
- 1 India
- 1 Ukraine
1993 FIDE / alternative to FIDE (final knockouts from top 16 and then two finals)
- 7 Soviet Union/CSI (has the champion)
- 2 England
- 2 Germany
- 1 Hungary
- 1 India
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
- 1 Yugoslavia
1990 FIDE
- 7 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 England
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Canada
- 1 Iceland
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
- 1 USA
1987 FIDE
- 9 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Canada
- 1 Cuba
- 1 England
- 1 France
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
- 1 USA
1984 (leading to WCC 1984/5/6) FIDE
- 4 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Germany
- 1 Philippines
- 1 Switzerland
1981 FIDE
- 5 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Germany
- 1 Switzerland
1978 FIDE
- 4 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 Brazil
- 1 Czechoslovakia
- 1 Denmark
- 1 Hungary
- 1 FIDE
1975 FIDE
- 5 Soviet Union
- 2 USA (has the champion)
- 1 Brazil
- 1 Hungary
1972 FIDE
- 5 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 Germany (West, Est)
- 1 Denmark
- 1 USA
1969 FIDE
- 5 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 Denmark
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Yugoslavia
- 1 USA
1966 FIDE
- 6 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 Denmark
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Yugoslavia
1963 FIDE
- 6 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 USA
- 1 Czechoslovakia
1960 FIDE
- 5 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 FIDE
- 1 Iceland
- 1 Yugoslavia
- 1 USA
1957 FIDE
- 7 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 2 Argentina
- 1 Czechoslovakia
- 1 Hungary
1954 FIDE
- 10 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 Argentina
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Sweden
- 1 Yugoslavia
- 1 USA
1951 FIDE
- 8 Soviet Union (has the champion)
- 1 Argentina
- 1 Hungary
- 1 Sweden
1948 FIDE
- 3 Soviet Union
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 USA
Pre 1948
No official qualifications in place.
Sources
The great site for overview on many topics. Wikipedia (English). Hopefully will be there as long as this document will be available in some form.
Observations
- Impressive how single players were able to keep a country visible in the final qualifications for the world chess championship for decades. Examples: Viswanathan Anand for India, Viktor Korchnoi for Switzerland.
- Before 1975, the Soviet Union almost plays alone.
- the USA are and were more represented than I expected.
- Europe (and a bit less North/South America) were the historical strong places for chess, with Russia and the region around the Caucasus leading. Recently due to more available information India and China seem becoming stronger also on individual level.