Author: Mark Young
Date: 11:37:04 06/18/01
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On June 18, 2001 at 14:23:25, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On June 18, 2001 at 13:41:25, Mark Young wrote: > >>On June 18, 2001 at 12:42:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>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 >> >>Quoted from Bob's post: >> >>"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..." >> >>You are Dead Wrong again Bob, we will take the 3 Grandmasters from the previous >>post for example. Not one of these Grandmasters was ever close to 2600 elo and >>in fact only one of these grandmasters was able to best 2500+ elo. As usual in >>this argument your theory falls apart in the light of FACTS. >> >> >>Yrjola, Jouni GM >>best elo 2515, 1984 >> >>Westerinen, Heikki M.J. GM >>best elo 2485, 1976 >> >>Rantanen, Yrjo A. GM >>best elo 2460, 1979 > >FIDE had a "Central Committee Meeting" at Oosterbeek in Sept 1975. >At that meeting they changed the regulations for awarding IM and GM titles. >They approved a proposition to add rating requirement to title norms (2400 and >2500 respectively for IM and GM titles). Correct, and this was good move by FIDE. As it is much harder to achieve a 2500+ elo rating the make TPR's for Grandmaster status. Before that the rules did not include >ratings at all. Only tournament peak performances and a "Qualification >Commission" that made their judgements and proposals. >At the same time the "Qualification Commission" proposed that Heikki Westerinen, >Alexander Beljavsky and 8 other players should be awarded the GM title. That >proposal was approved in the same meeting. Heikki had at that time 2485 and have >never exceeded that rating as far as I know. >//Peter
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