Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:30:40 06/18/01
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On June 18, 2001 at 14:52:40, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On June 18, 2001 at 14:34:45, Robert Hyatt 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: >>>> >>So he _did_ at some point in time, produce a 2600+ rating for himself. It might >>have been 20 years ago... but he _did_ do it. There is _no_ way to earn the >>title GM without (a) having had a rating over 2500 at some point, and (b) >>producing a performance rating of 2600+ over 24 games. > >That might be valid today, but the rating requirement were decided at 1975 and >have been changed after that as well. See my answer to Mark: >http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?175668 > >//Peter That is possible. But since the discussion is about how to define a grandmaster _today_, going back to rules that will never be used again doesn't seem to help much. Heck, we could go back 200 years and simply claim to be world champions with no requirement to play matches to prove it. :)
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