Nor removing the "chess pieces" will make a difference.
At the heart of it you still have an "Us vs Them" group scenario. No matter if you have 2 or 10 countries. Sure, some countries band together at times to make their advances but at some point that love in has to be broken for 1 side to eventually win.
There are many reasons / speculations we all have as to what / why we have this existing problem. I don't think there is a single right / wrong answer here but hopefully though these discussions we can find common ground to help make things more even across the countries without upsetting to many people. We have a good community here and lots of people with ideas. Maybe we can try some of them as suggested throughout the thread as a starting point...but that is HiTech's call.
Cheers,
Elec1
