It's been extremely popular in Russia ever since the Soviets introduced traditional chess schools.
Chess has been a very popular game and is becoming even more popular .
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Chess was already an established and popular game amongst the countries who settled what later became the USA. So it assumedly just travelled across with them, no one person introduced the game to the continent.
The most popular sport in armenia is split between football and boxing, although Chess is the most popular 'sport' there but it depends whether you count chess as a sport?
Chess wasn't discovered, it was invented around the 11th century, as the sequel to an already-popular simplified type of chess.
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Chess is a popular game played worldwide, but it was probably first brought there by the Spanish.
Chess has developed over the centuries in many countries to become what it is but the first chess-like game originated in India.
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No, although chess is a popular game and played by so called "professionals" you cannot get a degree in it.