This map ranks countries worldwide based on the
performance of their chess players across various categories.
First, the official leaderboards are retrieved from the
Chess.com API.
Next, the individual player scores are aggregated to
calculate each
country's total score.
A country's rank is then determined based on this total
score.
The total score represents the sum of all individual
player scores from
a given country. Larger countries have an advantage due to
their higher
populations. To create a more balanced ranking, population data
is
retrieved from The World Bank API and applied to the
following formula:
Total score / population * 1000 = average score.
The brighter the color, the higher a country's rank on the chess leaderboard.
Simple as that!