Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:08:33 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 19:22:28, John Wentworth wrote: >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. You're clearly wrong about that. Not about few being able to play chess full time, but that plucking chickens is as hard as chess. I've done both. >>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 Got me there. >Brain surgery Have to ask Kamsky about that one. >Climbing Mt. Everest I suspect it's about the same. But quite a large fraction of the everest climbers die, so the risk is a bit higher. >Walking through Harlem with $10,000.00 in your hands,in the middle of the night >without getting mugged. It happens all the time. >Becoming rich while working at McDonald's Inheritance can happen any time. >Getting Bill Gates to send you a million or two No statistics for this one. >Getting Cindy Crawford to go out with you Not interested anyway. >Buying the very first production model Corvette Got me again. You have a better imagination than I do. >Believing something a politician tells you etc. etc. I don't think this is rare at all. But intelligence must be considered. >>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. It's what we want to see, which is what makes it valuable. If the world's best chicken plucker could earn a million dollars in a match against the number one contender, then that would be similar. Since nobody much cares about chicken feather removal velocity, I doubt if anyone would be interested. By the way, after you pluck the chicken, roll up a newspaper and light the end of it. Orbit the chicken a few times with the flames to burn off the little hair-like protrudances left over from manual plucking. Not sure how the factories do it. >> The cries >>of "watered down!" are absurd spew. >> >>IMO-YMMV.
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