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What are and which is highest IM or NM or FM or CM?

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hunterweedn
Dec 23, 2022
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#41
Ugh enough unless unclenched Frank got its rock Foundation video TIBCO connecting that was random typing lol
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BlackaKhan
Jan 1, 2023
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#42

NM is awarded by each country's national chess federation, not by FIDE, so how it compares to CM depends on each country's criteria for NM.

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Rakshan-Nandakumar
Jun 7, 2024
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#43

You get cm and then fm and im and then gm

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NM Reb
Jun 7, 2024
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#44
Rakshan-Nandakumar wrote:

You get cm and then fm and im and then gm

There are FMs that went straight to GM and were never an IM ..... Kramnik is one very famous example I believe , so is the USA's Larry Christiansen .