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How is this insulting? There probably are not many more than 100 players who qualify as stars, with the term “star” being taken as someone who’s clearly one of the best high school players in the country. You can probably disqualify 90% of those high schools from producing a single player of any real skill compared to the top echelon, and of the remaining 10%, only a small fraction are good enough to get any national recognition.

Why are there so many posts word-policing the use of superlatives? Calling everyone super-extra-awesome-amazing is not helpful to understanding of meaning in this context and is in general harmful to everyone--especially kids who will go years without receiving any honest feedback because it makes adults feel better to say everyone is awesome and give everyone a trophy.

Non sense.

Most Russians plays chess, only few are grandmasters.

It's a pyramid, stars are only the top players regardless of how many there are at the base.