How can meme countries below 3% even compete?

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southern cone master race

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>ywn be a chess grandmaster

feels batman

He looks like
Cotton Hill

Also those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it hue

>live in soviet shithole
>chess is only game allowed
>many people play chess
>some get to represent glorious soviet shithole abroad in chess tournaments
>get rich and famous
>more people learn to play chess because it's one of the only ways to make your life better in soviet shithole
>get many good chess players
>only chess

Chess isn't popular here.

>chess aka plebby board game
>not go

Countries below 10% shouldnt be able to post

>No grandmasters in Africa

As expected

what about ice hockey

This is a much better question

so what? we have canicas grandmasters

Russia still numbah one

>chess

This
True masterminds play domino

Who cares, we have something better

nobody cares about the game chess outside of the west.

>invent modern chess alongside italians and portuguese
>suck at it

It seems autism was never our thing.

>not Trompo master race
what a fucking pleb

>Be Russian
>Wake up in run down one room apartment that's shared by entire family.
>Look out window and take in the endless rows of beautiful grey identical commieblocks
>Carefully avoid walking on extended family or vodka bottles littering the rug
>Take a freezing cold shower because landlord sold water heater for krokodil
>Kick babushka and demand breakfast
>Eat watery cabbage and mayonnaise porridge
>Hmm, what to do today?
>Had to sell tv because pension no longer covers expenses
>Fire up family computer, try to browse internet.
>Every non russian website is blocked and my information is sent to the FSB
>Put on Adidas tracksuit.
>Walk down 15 floors of stairs and avoid gangsters hanging out by entrance.
>Decide to see a movie
>Remember Theater was held up by Chechen terrorists and the government blew up the entire theater and the nearby department store killing 500 people and two terrorists.
>Try to take metro downtown, get mugged by gopniks and lose grandma's pension money
>Go to park, bunch of depressed, angry looking old dudes playing chess
>Play chess
>Do that all day, every day.

>Chess
Normies out

>3,1 %

nice

this is shit
go is better
but you are lazy and China kicks your ass now

Fuck you, japper.

i recognize you, you always shit on russia posting cartoons pictures, i know is none of my bussiness but why do you like that cartoon so much?

this map looks coloured wrong

Shit, I knew Yugoslavia had an impressive past in chess tournaments, but I never realized the grandmasters were Serbs