My favorite quote about chess.

"Winning or losing is not the main idea of chess at all. A chess game is in fact a friendly exchange of intentions, hidden in individual moves. You always have the choice either of putting into action your planned move, or of first calmly preventing the intended move of the friend with whom you are playing chess in this brief, finite moment of your life."

I play chess at https://lichess.org/ which is free, zero ads. Wealthy people pay the bills.

I never have to wait more than a few seconds to get an opponent. After the game in less than 2 minutes I can get a free computer analysis of what I did wrong and what I did right.

My opponents have been from almost every country in the world. We are all friends because we share a love for chess.

Lichess.org has websites for almost every country in the world and for other things. These websites are called "teams". My favorite is the atheist team.

What somebody wrote there:

The US, UK, and some Latin American countries seem to be secularizing at a rapid pace, and I expect these places will resemble mainland Europe in 30 years.

There are some logistical problems facing atheists though in the long term. Fact of the matter is, religious parents have more kids. Because of this, the spread of atheism is mostly caused by conversions. Radicalized religious followers are aware of this and are increasingly taking measures to brainwash their kids more heavily to prevent them from losing their faith later in life, and what we're seeing is a polarization in society. The moderately religious are disappearing, becoming atheists over time, and the radically religious are becoming MORE radically religious, and are becoming a larger percentage of the religious population... and there should be some concern paid to this.

In particular, Islam poses a major existential roadblock towards the secularization of the planet. Because this religion punishes apostasy with death, it retains and controls its members through fear much more effectively.