Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:05:20 09/03/00
Go up one level in this thread
On September 03, 2000 at 06:22:48, Steve wrote: >On September 02, 2000 at 13:23:01, Jonathan Lee wrote: > >>On September 01, 2000 at 17:16:30, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>On September 01, 2000 at 16:56:19, Severi Salminen wrote: >>> >>>>. >>> >>>Assuming you are serious. >>>International Grand Master = IGM >>> >>>Thanks. >>An international grandmaster is about the top 10 chess players in the world. >>Jonathan (63rd message) > >That was the original idea when the first "grandmasters" were recognized at St. >Petersburg 1914, and for many years thereafter being a grandmaster indeed meant >that you were among the top players in the world. But the title has been >greatly watered down in recent years. There may soon be 1000 grandmasters in >Myanmar (Burma) alone. :) I read that only that the rating is inflated in Burma but I did not heard about grandmasters from Burma. The fact that it is possible to get inflated rating proves that there is something wrong with the system. A good system should not allow people to get a rating of a GM unless they do good performance against people from other countries. I do not know the way that people from Burma got good rating and I can only guess but if somebody gets 100% or almost 100% against 2300-2400 rating players from the same country and never play against players from other countries or never get good results against them then I suspect that something is wrong with the rating and a good rating system also should suspect the same thing and not let him to get good rating without getting good results against players from different countries. I think that the condition for getting GM norms are different and you cannot get GM norms even if you get 100% unless you play in an international tournaments when you have to play against people from other countries when at least 3 of your opponents should be GM's. Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.