Author: Jouni Tolonen
Date: 13:54:16 09/03/00
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On September 02, 2000 at 14:47:01, Albert Silver wrote: >On September 02, 2000 at 14:34:59, Chessfun wrote: > >>On September 02, 2000 at 14:13:24, Severi Salminen wrote: >> >>>>Assuming you are serious. >>>>International Grand Master = IGM >>> >>>I'm allways serious :) The point: there is no such thing as IGM. There are only >>>GMs, IMs etc. There are no _normal_ Grand Masters and International Grand >>>Masters, only Grand Masters. And I believe that the most GMs are quite >>>international... >>> >>>Severi >> >> >>While I agree with all you wrote the fact is the term IGM >>is used. It may define to all Grandmasters however that was not >>your original question. >> >>Which is why I started with assuming you are serious. >>You could instead just have posted the simple question why is the >>term IGM used instead of GM? Besides which this isn't even the right >>forum for either of those questions. >> >>Sarah. > >Although they are referred to as Grandmasters, the official Fide title is >'International Grandmaster', hence IGM. > > Albert Silver The official FIDE handbook should know: http://handbook.fide.com/handbook.cgi?level=B&level=01&level=00& 0.3 The International FIDE titles are: 0.31 Titles for over-the-board chess, the judging unit being the FIDE Qualification Commission: Grandmaster (GM), International Master (IM), FIDE Master (FM), Woman Grandmaster (WGM), Woman International Master (WIM), Woman FIDE Master (WFM), Honorary Master (H-M) and FIDE Category Player. (GA 98) Of course the FIDE titles may have been different in the past. Jouni Tolonen
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