Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 00:19:47 02/16/03
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On February 15, 2003 at 23:41:58, Tony Schleizer wrote: >On February 15, 2003 at 19:12:09, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>At least he is the first American to brake Bobby Fischer record ! >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=800 > >A great accomplishment by Nakamura, but it seems to me that the GM title has >become easier to obtain over the years. Also, I just looked up Fischer's rating >at chessmetrics.com, and when he was 15.8 years old, he was ranked number 23 in >the world (this may not jive with FIDE's list at the time, but I don't have that >list). According to FIDE's most recent list, Hikaru is number 450 in the world. >Not all GM's are created equal. > >Tony Totally agree. Also, Fischer won his first US Championship at 14. Lets use that as the measuring stick instead of "GM at 15". :) -Peter
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