Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 08:22:45 07/13/98
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On July 13, 1998 at 10:54:34, Shaun Graham wrote: >On July 13, 1998 at 10:26:24, Guido Schimmels wrote: > >> >>On July 13, 1998 at 05:25:33, Shaun Graham wrote: >>... >>>Many I.M.s get the grandmaster title simply >>>by playing in lots of tournaments in europe, if you are an I.M, and you play >>>enough especially in lower category tourneys you will get the 3 GM norms. In >>>the New york open there were several GMs in the under 2400 section, and >>>even a couple rated under 2300!! So is Fritz a GM? >>... >> >>(Caution, may be considered off-topic !) >> >>Yes, GM doesn't necessarily mean a thing today, the title has become >>somewhat inflated. >>There are roughly 500 GM's now. At least 400 too much IMHO ! >>Or does anyone admire or only care about a player ranked 450 in the world >>in tennis for example ? And chess is a very marginal competition (sport ?) ! >> >>Well, Fritz (or Rebel or ...) could easily pick those 3 GM norms if FIDE >>would let them, (play hundreds of tournaments a year if necessary) ! >> > >Thank you man of excellent reasoning ability! Yes fritz would get that norm, >but i seriously doubt it would take hundreds of tourneys, my rough guess would >be 50 max Yes, 50 should be enough. Just that it is technically possible to do it, opposed to a single human (if you have enough operators and computers), so a computer would succeed anyway - eventually. >>I think a player should be rated >2600 for 2 or 3 years before he can be > >nope you need a rating of 2500, and you need to get the norms that's it. Also i >believe that if you qaulify for the zonals you get the title automatically as >Fischer did. You may also win the World Junior championship which qaulifies you >for the title, but that may simply because you are automatically slotted into >the zonals. You misunderstood. I know this. Expressed my opinion how I wish it was ! >>called a GM (remember, we once started with only 20 GM's !). > >I thought it was 10, named by, i believe czar Nicholas II but i could be wrong Don't know the exact number, my rough memory from years ago. My point is, GM should be something really special. - Guido -
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