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Originally Posted by Dragondog
If we give Kasparov a skill of 22, a grandmaster has a skill of 18-19 which seems high considering how many grandmasters there are (more than 1,000 alive as of 12 feb 2011).
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Chess doesn't require expensive equipment to practice, it is non-dangerous to play it or even to lose at it, and some cultures also strongly celebrate high chess skill (Russian culture in particular, is my impression).
3 arguments for why high Chess skill should be more common than high skill at other things?