Author: John Wentworth
Date: 16:22:28 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 12:55:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 20, 2001 at 11:22:49, Mark Young wrote: > >>On June 20, 2001 at 11:05:21, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: >> >>>It's more revealing about the mindset of the questioner, in regards to the >>>legitimacy of GM Ashley's GM status. Why wasn't this question asked about the >>>playing strength of non-black GM's who earned their GM norm consistent with GM >>>Ashley's performance? >>> >>>CMcMo >> >> >>I. GM Ashley is an example of an average Grandmaster. >> >>II. GM Ashley is a Newer Grandmaster. >> >>III. GM Ashley has a rating below 2500 as many other Grandmasters do, not just >>the "old Grandmasters" >> >>IV. GM Ashley best Elo was just 2500. > >GM Ashley is a popular target, almost certainly because he is black. There are >other GM's with lower ELO. > >>Making the point that this is all that is needed to be a Grandmaster in todays >>world, Not the lofty standards Bob and other are trying to say it take to be a >>Grandmaster. > >You still have to get 3 2600 norms in an extremely talented field or meet the >other requirements. > >There are 6 billion people on the earth. >There are less than 500 GM's. So, that means nothing. There are 6 billion people on earth, a few of which pluck chickens. Only a handful reach the elite title of elite chicken plucker. I think part of the reason for so few GM's, is that few can afford to play chess full time. >That means that less than one in 12,000,000 persons on the earth have achieved >that distinction. Probably about the same odds as the elite chicken pluckers.... >To become a GM is harder than to become a professional basketball player. Not so sure on this...... >To become a GM is harder than just about any other task I can think of. I could think of about a million things that are harder... Let's see, Becoming the World Chess Champion is much harder than just becoming a GM Brain surgery Climbing Mt. Everest Walking through Harlem with $10,000.00 in your hands,in the middle of the night without getting mugged. Becoming rich while working at McDonald's Getting Bill Gates to send you a million or two Getting Cindy Crawford to go out with you Buying the very first production model Corvette Believing something a politician tells you etc. etc. etc. etc. >GM's deserve nothing but praise because of their distinction as such. Praise for what? It's a game. Should be no more praise than someone who is the best at chicken plucking, spitting for distance, hot dog eating contests etc. etc. > The cries >of "watered down!" are absurd spew. > >IMO-YMMV.
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