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TadDude
Seems almost impossible to earn a FIDE norm unless you are in Europe.
To be fair their have been recent gains at least in the US. http://www.chess.com/news/3rd-metropolitan-fide-invitational-1636
Recall last year, Bryan Smith was disapponted and Sam Shankland was .... disappointed, yeah that's it, disappointed. http://main.uschess.org/content/view/10513/596
Shankland did earn his final GM norm in the US. http://www.chess.com/news/van-wely-wins-4th-berkeley-international-1287
Now Smith has earned a norm in Bulgaria. http://main.uschess.org/content/view/11067/621/
The 27th International Open 2011 has started and boasts these norms from last year:
During this 26th edition of Cappelle la Grande Chess International open, 13 norms were achieved:
Norms of Grand Master:
Norms of International Master:
Norm of Woman Grand Master:
If you have a norm or even three, which tournament and in which country were you?
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Edit: The possible contributors are a very small pool indeed. So here is an additional question that includes a few more people.
If you went somewhere to earn a norm but failed, where did you go? Did your opponents turn out to be too weak to count for a norm or did you play poorly?
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