Answers.Body: <p>I downloaded the latest <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">July 2020 rating list</a> and loaded the data into my database and ran a few queries.</p>
  <p>First one to show the number of players who played standard, rapid or blitz per federation sorted by standard players descending. I also included the number of active players in the federation to give an idea of which federations were more active. I excluded federations where the number of players playing was less than 4 on the grounds that they were likely living and playing in other federations. That still gave an impressive list of 33 federations which look as if they are back playing chess.</p>
  <p>Code    ActivePlayers   Standard    Rapid   Blitz<br />
  CZE 10838   2543    17  16<br />
  SVK 6704    1357    54  0<br />
  SWE 5331    449 1   0<br />
  CRO 7654    351 14  54<br />
  GRE 20595   338 0   0<br />
  DEN 5496    134 0   0<br />
  SRB 7436    112 75  69<br />
  ISR 4104    96  0   1<br />
  NOR 5165    93  0   0<br />
  POL 21407   85  38  40<br />
  HUN 7928    80  6   1<br />
  LAT 2758    69  86  99<br />
  MNE 822 69  0   0<br />
  SUI 3170    66  6   1<br />
  BUL 3038    60  1   0<br />
  ISL 1842    36  54  60<br />
  FIN 1308    36  0   0<br />
  LTU 3813    32  59  22<br />
  SLO 4320    31  44  82<br />
  NCA 712 23  0   39<br />
  GER 22613   22  1   2<br />
  EST 1517    22  0   6<br />
  BEL 5602    14  0   1<br />
  RUS 68077   8   3   1<br />
  ITA 18332   6   10  1<br />
  AUT 5640    4   2   0<br />
  UKR 11853   4   2   22<br />
  FRA 55783   4   1   2<br />
  TUR 36523   4   0   0<br />
  ESP 45444   4   0   1<br />
  IRQ 1515    2   47  0<br />
  THA 1082    0   14  0<br />
  KGZ 2688    0   10  0</p>
  <p>What stands out as quite remarkable in that list is that over 20% of Czech and Slovak active players played last month!</p>
  <p>Next a query to show the sum of standard players, rapid players and blitz players.</p>
  <p>That gave for June 2020:</p>
  <p>Standard = 6171<br />
  Rapid = 551<br />
  Blitz = 524</p>
  <p>By comparison for June 2019:</p>
  <p>Standard = 35708<br />
  Rapid = 18712<br />
  Blitz = 10569</p>
  <p>Two things stand out</p>
  <ol>
  <li>More than 60% of standard chess played in June 2020 was played in the Czech and Slovak republics</li>
  <li>Standard accounted for far more of the chess played in June 2020 than in June 2019.</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Next a query to show the sum of standard+rapid+blitz games per federation. Here is the top 20. Click on the federation link to see the list of tournaments reported for that federation in June 2020:</p>
  <p>Code    Total   Standard    Rapid   Blitz<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=CZE&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CZE</a>    16002   7899    100 204<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=SVK&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SVK</a>    4848    2424    132 0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=LAT&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LAT</a>    2625    599 672 1427<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=SRB&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SRB</a>    2097    435 560 1227<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=CRO&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CRO</a>    2074    719 80  636<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=GRE&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GRE</a>    1834    917 0   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=SLO&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SLO</a>    1663    138 300 1387<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=POL&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">POL</a>    1221    441 401 339<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=HUN&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HUN</a>   1213    601 8   11<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=SWE&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SWE</a>   1108    554 7   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=ISL&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ISL</a>   869 93  330 683<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=NOR&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NOR</a>   776 388 0   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=DEN&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DEN</a>   754 377 0   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=LTU&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LTU</a>   714 230 404 254<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=BUL&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BUL</a>   708 354 9   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=MNE&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MNE</a>   606 303 0   0<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=NCA&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NCA</a>   575 167 0   241<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=SUI&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SUI</a>   503 246 36  11<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=EST&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EST</a>   354 144 0   66<br />
  <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=ISR&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ISR</a>   319 155 0   9</p>
  <p>The sum of games for June 2020:</p>
  <p>Standard = 17562<br />
  Rapid = 3774<br />
  Blitz = 6844</p>
  <p>For comparison the same figures for June 2019:</p>
  <p>Standard = 247057<br />
  Rapid = 148693<br />
  Blitz = 121143</p>
  <p>Digging deeper into the data for the Czech republic, you can see the tournaments reported for<br />
  June 2020 for the Czech Republic <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=CZE&amp;rating_period=2020-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and for<br />
  June 2019 for the Czech Republic <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&amp;country=CZE&amp;rating_period=2019-07-01" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a></p>
  <p>43 Czech tournaments reported in June 2020 against 21 in June 2019. It looks very much like in June they aimed to catch up with all the matches and tournaments they missed during the lockdown.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I asked a <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-much-fide-rated-chess-was-played-in-april-2020">similar question</a> about chess during lockdown. Now that some countries are coming out of lockdown and chess is resuming FIDE has published <a href="https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">data for June</a>.</p>
  <p>NB I looked at May data and as far as I could tell FIDE just repeated the April tournament data with updates from federations for corrections to previous data and new registrations but no new tournament data. The June data does contain new tournament data.</p>
  <p>What does the June data tell us about chess coming out of lockdown?</p>
  <p>Specifically:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>How many games (or half-games) of FIDE rated chess (standard, rapid and blitz) were played in June, by country?</li>
  <li>How many players from which countries played FIDE rated chess (standard, rapid and blitz) in June?</li>
  <li>How does this compare with the same data for June 2019 for total game counts and total player counts? (Break down by country would be too much)</li>
  </ol>
  <p>These statistics should give us some idea what progress is being made and how much further we have to go to get back close to normal.</p>
  
Tags: <rating><fide><statistics>
Title: As we come out of lockdown, how much FIDE rated chess was played in June 2020?
ThreadText: # As we come out of lockdown, how much FIDE rated chess was played in June 2020?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-13)
  
  I asked a [similar question](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-much-fide-rated-chess-was-played-in-april-2020) about chess during lockdown. Now that some countries are coming out of lockdown and chess is resuming FIDE has published [data for June](https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml).
  
  NB I looked at May data and as far as I could tell FIDE just repeated the April tournament data with updates from federations for corrections to previous data and new registrations but no new tournament data. The June data does contain new tournament data.
  
  What does the June data tell us about chess coming out of lockdown?
  
  Specifically:
  
  1. How many games (or half-games) of FIDE rated chess (standard, rapid and blitz) were played in June, by country?
  2. How many players from which countries played FIDE rated chess (standard, rapid and blitz) in June?
  3. How does this compare with the same data for June 2019 for total game counts and total player counts? (Break down by country would be too much)
  
  These statistics should give us some idea what progress is being made and how much further we have to go to get back close to normal.
  
  **Tags:** rating, fide, statistics
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2020-07-13. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  I downloaded the latest [July 2020 rating list](https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml) and loaded the data into my database and ran a few queries.
  
  First one to show the number of players who played standard, rapid or blitz per federation sorted by standard players descending. I also included the number of active players in the federation to give an idea of which federations were more active. I excluded federations where the number of players playing was less than 4 on the grounds that they were likely living and playing in other federations. That still gave an impressive list of 33 federations which look as if they are back playing chess.
  
  Code ActivePlayers Standard Rapid Blitz  
  CZE 10838 2543 17 16  
  SVK 6704 1357 54 0  
  SWE 5331 449 1 0  
  CRO 7654 351 14 54  
  GRE 20595 338 0 0  
  DEN 5496 134 0 0  
  SRB 7436 112 75 69  
  ISR 4104 96 0 1  
  NOR 5165 93 0 0  
  POL 21407 85 38 40  
  HUN 7928 80 6 1  
  LAT 2758 69 86 99  
  MNE 822 69 0 0  
  SUI 3170 66 6 1  
  BUL 3038 60 1 0  
  ISL 1842 36 54 60  
  FIN 1308 36 0 0  
  LTU 3813 32 59 22  
  SLO 4320 31 44 82  
  NCA 712 23 0 39  
  GER 22613 22 1 2  
  EST 1517 22 0 6  
  BEL 5602 14 0 1  
  RUS 68077 8 3 1  
  ITA 18332 6 10 1  
  AUT 5640 4 2 0  
  UKR 11853 4 2 22  
  FRA 55783 4 1 2  
  TUR 36523 4 0 0  
  ESP 45444 4 0 1  
  IRQ 1515 2 47 0  
  THA 1082 0 14 0  
  KGZ 2688 0 10 0
  
  What stands out as quite remarkable in that list is that over 20% of Czech and Slovak active players played last month!
  
  Next a query to show the sum of standard players, rapid players and blitz players.
  
  That gave for June 2020:
  
  Standard = 6171  
  Rapid = 551  
  Blitz = 524
  
  By comparison for June 2019:
  
  Standard = 35708  
  Rapid = 18712  
  Blitz = 10569
  
  Two things stand out
  
  1. More than 60% of standard chess played in June 2020 was played in the Czech and Slovak republics
  2. Standard accounted for far more of the chess played in June 2020 than in June 2019.
  
  Next a query to show the sum of standard+rapid+blitz games per federation. Here is the top 20. Click on the federation link to see the list of tournaments reported for that federation in June 2020:
  
  Code Total Standard Rapid Blitz  
  [CZE](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=CZE&rating_period=2020-07-01) 16002 7899 100 204  
  [SVK](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SVK&rating_period=2020-07-01) 4848 2424 132 0  
  [LAT](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=LAT&rating_period=2020-07-01) 2625 599 672 1427  
  [SRB](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SRB&rating_period=2020-07-01) 2097 435 560 1227  
  [CRO](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=CRO&rating_period=2020-07-01) 2074 719 80 636  
  [GRE](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=GRE&rating_period=2020-07-01) 1834 917 0 0  
  [SLO](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SLO&rating_period=2020-07-01) 1663 138 300 1387  
  [POL](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=POL&rating_period=2020-07-01) 1221 441 401 339  
  [HUN](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=HUN&rating_period=2020-07-01) 1213 601 8 11  
  [SWE](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SWE&rating_period=2020-07-01) 1108 554 7 0  
  [ISL](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=ISL&rating_period=2020-07-01) 869 93 330 683  
  [NOR](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=NOR&rating_period=2020-07-01) 776 388 0 0  
  [DEN](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=DEN&rating_period=2020-07-01) 754 377 0 0  
  [LTU](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=LTU&rating_period=2020-07-01) 714 230 404 254  
  [BUL](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=BUL&rating_period=2020-07-01) 708 354 9 0  
  [MNE](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=MNE&rating_period=2020-07-01) 606 303 0 0  
  [NCA](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=NCA&rating_period=2020-07-01) 575 167 0 241  
  [SUI](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=SUI&rating_period=2020-07-01) 503 246 36 11  
  [EST](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=EST&rating_period=2020-07-01) 354 144 0 66  
  [ISR](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=ISR&rating_period=2020-07-01) 319 155 0 9
  
  The sum of games for June 2020:
  
  Standard = 17562  
  Rapid = 3774  
  Blitz = 6844
  
  For comparison the same figures for June 2019:
  
  Standard = 247057  
  Rapid = 148693  
  Blitz = 121143
  
  Digging deeper into the data for the Czech republic, you can see the tournaments reported for  
  June 2020 for the Czech Republic [here](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=CZE&rating_period=2020-07-01) and for  
  June 2019 for the Czech Republic [here](https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=CZE&rating_period=2019-07-01)
  
  43 Czech tournaments reported in June 2020 against 21 in June 2019. It looks very much like in June they aimed to catch up with all the matches and tournaments they missed during the lockdown.
  
  
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