Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 09:01:34 07/13/98
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On July 13, 1998 at 11:22:45, Guido Schimmels wrote: > >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 > The five finalist of the great St. Petersburg tournament of 1914 were declared "grandmasters of chess" by the Tsar. The finalists were: 1. Capablanca 2. Lasker 3. Tarrasch 4. Alekhine 5. Marshall PK >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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