Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:42:01 06/18/01
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On June 18, 2001 at 08:21:54, Jouni Uski wrote: >Here in Finland we have 3 GMs. Here's from their ratings from fide: > >500011 Yrjola, Jouni g 2419 2 24.10.1959 >500020 Westerinen, Heikki M.J. g 2412 10 27.4.1944 >500038 Rantanen, Yrjo A. g 2327 0 23.4.1950 > >You can give computer a knight handicap to get interesting match... > >Jouni First, these titles are awarded when a specific set of criteria have been met. IE in the US, if you are a member of the USCF and play chess, your rating can fluctuate from class-c (1400-1600) to class-a (1800-2000) and your "title" changes as well. But once your rating hits 2200, you receive a "life master" title that never gets revoked. GM players are exactly the same. IE when I finished my PhD, I was awarded the title of "Dr.". I will keep that title for life, even if I reach a point where I can't remember 2+2. GMs are the same. They satisfied the strict criteria at some point. Then they get older and their chess skills decline. But the title is not dependent on their maintaining a 2500+ rating forever. It is very possible that there could exist a GM that could not win a class-B event at a USCF tournament. Age does strange things to the mind. So picking a bunch of GMs with ratings of 2400 and then saying "hey, computers are this good, so..." doesn't make much sense. Because at _some_ point in time, those 2400 GM players were 2600+ GM players, otherwise they would not have gotten the title...
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