Move over Elista...

... the real chess city is Beersheba.

Here's a surprise gambit: the city with the most chess grandmasters per capita in the world is Beersheba [in Israel]....it's a ratio of one grandmaster per 22,875 residents in this city of 183,000. That's...impressive compared to traditional chess centers in Russia, like Moscow with one grandmaster out of every 170,000 people, or St. Petersburg with one per 215,000...

Read "Israeli Desert City Leads in Chess Champs".