Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 16:46:35 07/14/98
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On July 14, 1998 at 10:43:27, Don Dailey wrote: >On July 13, 1998 at 11:57:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 13, 1998 at 10:30:31, Shaun Graham wrote: >> >>>PS #2! :) >>> >>>You don't have to defeat GM's to qaulify for the title, you simply have to >>>perform at a certain level in events of a certain category. In swiss system >>>tournaments fritz could get paired against almost all 2300-2400 opponents, >>>defeat them and have a performance well over 2500 ELO. This isn't even taking >>>into consideration, the 1 out of 4 tourneys where fritz would defeat someone of >>>the calliber of GM Kotronias. >> >> >>Sorry, but this is mistaken. You have to play in a tournament of a known >>"category" and produce a result >= X where X varies based on the category >>of the tournament. And it *guarantees* that you are going to have to play >>and beat GM's to get the required 3 GM norms... Or you are going to have to >>roll over a *bunch* of IM players which is just as good. > >Hi Shaun, > >I think Bob is more correct on this one. The problem is that if you >continue to beat up on weaker players, then you are virtually guaranteed >some pairings with stronger players. I don't think these tournaments >have very many weaker players anyway. But if you can "roll over" these >weaker players consistantly, then you probably are playing at grandmaster >strength. I think it's EXTREMELY unlikely, perhaps impossible to get >a GM norm without hanging with the Grandmasters. Sorry i never said that you wouldn't play any titled players. What i said is that you could play a number of 2300-2450 players and beat them, this would give you the necessary performance rating, you might play a GM, doesn't mean you are going to lose, after all fritz did beat GM Kotronias a game in this match, if you extrapolated a bit on that data, you could posit that fritz would beat a GM 1 in every 4 tournaments, thus giving rather good possibilities of getting a norm. Further you have 5 years to acquire the norm, in that time period (less most likely) you would have achieved those norms. > >- Don
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