Author: Bill Gletsos
Date: 03:14:47 06/16/01
If you want to claim a computer is a GM let the computer earn the GM title just like any human would have to. Clearly a player is a GM because they meet the necessary FIDE Title criteria not because they have a 2500 rating. GM's didnt get their titles because of their rating but due to meeting a set of criteria that established them as being of as some of you would call it "GM strength". In general this criteria requires them to get 2 or more GM "norms" in events covering at least 24 games(30 games without a round robin or Olympiad) and a rating of at least 2500(within 7 years of acheiving the first GM norm). These events have to be valid Title events. There are 548 players over 2500 on the latest FIDE list with another 10 being rated 2500. There are many players on this list rated over 2500 who are not GM's but only IM's. Some are only even FM's and some have no FIDE title at all, although it should be noted that the majority of this latter group are from Myanmar.
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