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Subject: Re: Let's define GM:

Author: Guido Schimmels

Date: 08:01:30 07/16/98

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On July 16, 1998 at 09:59:29, Don Dailey wrote:

>On July 16, 1998 at 08:58:05, Guido Schimmels wrote:
>
>>
>>On July 15, 1998 at 11:08:34, Danniel Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>People seem to want to discuss whether or not a computer program is a GM or not.
>>>
>>>The FIDE list does not contain any computers.
>>>
>>>Computers are not FIDE GM's.
>>>
>>>Hence, if we want to talk about computers being GM's or not, we need some new
>>>kind of definition.
>>>
>>>What _exactly_ is a computer GM?
>>>
>>>Being able to beat one seems pretty irrelevant to me.  I'll bet once in a while
>>>GM's lose to their kids because they are not paying attention or whatever.
>>>
>>>If we do not know what we are discussing, then the discussion seems rather
>>>pointless.
>>
>>I don't see why we need a special definition for computer GM.
>>Here is an extract of "International Title Regulations of FIDE":
>>
>>1.1	Grandmaster:
>>	Obtained by achieving any of the following:
>>
>>1.11	(GA '93) Two or more GM results (TPR > 2600 ELO)
>>                in events covering at least 24 games
>>                (30 games without a round robin or Olympiad)
>>                and a rating of at least 2500 in the FIDE Rating List current
>>                at the time  the FIDE Congress considers the application,
>>                or within seven years of the first title result being achieved.
>>
>>10.1	GM results in tournaments with fewer than three individual GMs are
>>                not valid.
>>
>>So a computer is a GM, when it performs consistantly at 2500 Elo level and
>>achieves TPRs >2600 once in a while.
>>Probably not true for any of today's micros.
>>
>>- Guido -
>
>I don't know how to read this Guido.  It sounds like you do not have
>to maintain the 2500 rating as long as you get two good results within
>seven years of each other.  Otherwise you have to have a 2500 ELO level
>rating at the time you get the last norm.
>
>It's not important to our discussion, but I am interested in the
>correct interpretation of this.
>
>Any GM's listening?
>
>- Don

As I understand,
within a 7-year period you need to:
1) get 2 norms (TPR > 2600)
and
2) be ratet >= 2500 in the FIDE Rating List  at least *one* time.

So if you haven't yet met condition 2) at the time of your second norm,
you will be GM as soon as you achieve this second goal (if in time).

- Guido -




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