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I'm ranked around 6.5 millionth for rapid chess on chess.com. Started playing regularly again after a thirty year break a few months ago so still some way to go to the top. My 9yo son is ranked 20 millionth. So Cueball from the comic being 7 millionth is by far not the lowest...

Actually the app tells you how many people are on the ranking list for rapid chess: 57,711,960. There are also 24 million for blitz and 15 million for bullet time controls.

Anything with several millions registered users must have a great many idle accounts. I imagine winning a single game will advance a player past a couple million who have never done so.

I recently started playing a game that offers global rankings, and I'm ranked like 42000th or something, but they don't tell you how many players there are, so I don't know how bad (or good) I am.