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When will GothamChess become a grandmaster?
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If he was going to be a GM I think he would have already been one by now. He needs to leave off that sherbet & calm down.
Mar 6, 2024
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#24
He better get some kind of paying job. What's he going to put on the application question: explain any gaps in employment. Answer: I was an internet chess troll for 8 years.
A_Proud_Zionist wrote:
"When will GothamChess become a grandmaster?"
When Barbara Streisand becomes the next Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
[Removed political vulgarity; KL]
NO
I've asked Hikaru if Levy could become a GM and he said no soo idk
Levys more a streamer guy, if he were to become a GM he would have to stop making videos, not only that but he has to keep the title, so not making videos will become a permanent fixture, so unlikely
magipi wrote:
Thelegendary_ROOK wrote:
DavidMa123 wrote:
the 2500 rating isnt fide or anything, its just a chess.com rating probably for gothamchess. Take an example from me, I am 2000 here and i never played any otb tournmanets or anyhting, so does that mean I am 2000 OTB? Definitely not. Chess.com ratings are like 100-250 ahead of fide or uscf ratings.
it's ahead because each game increases or decreases your rating, take proffesiona chess players, their rating goes up slower because the netire tournament and all their game conbined will determine the rating increase or decrease
That's simply not true.
take the 2023 rapid and blitz championship, Magnus didn't win or lose rating for every game he won or lost, the entirety of the tournamnet and his performance determined the rating
Mar 16, 2024
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#30
Gotta love how, so many are, so quick to disregard by your logic we might as well all quit playing, because you will never improve due too your age. Levy is 30, not 90...
Mar 16, 2024
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#31
llama_l wrote:
TurtleMania21 wrote:
I've been watching Levy's journey for a while and I'm confused: he has 2700 ELO in blitz, higher than many grandmasters
He's in his 20s, which boosts your blitz rating.
He's still just an IM in OTB chess, and he'll likely never be GM. He started when he was young, so he can't improve much anymore.
Wait what? Young enough to be better at blitz, but to old to be better at rapid and classical?
nah hes never getting GM
Mar 16, 2024
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#33
Smoth3redCheckM8 wrote:
nah hes never getting GM
I disagree. He's capable. He needs to quit playing blitz entirely though..
Mar 16, 2024
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#34
Saltyirishmen wrote:
Smoth3redCheckM8 wrote:
nah hes never getting GM
I disagree. He's capable. He needs to quit playing blitz entirely though..
hes not getting gm bruh
Mar 16, 2024
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#35
not that its impossible, just that hes not going to becuase he doesnt want to put the effort in
NO
DrSpudnik wrote:
I really, really can't force myself to watch a 20-minute Rozman-video, I got fed up after like 20 seconds. Can you sum up what's going on?
Mar 30, 2024
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magipi wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
I really, really can't force myself to watch a 20-minute Rozman-video, I got fed up after like 20 seconds. Can you sum up what's going on?
He laments his decades-long time spent with chess and then goes over the most excruciating game between two 400 players (who use very little of their 10 minutes) and who engage in both brilliancies and errors, ending with White, down massive material and in mate-in-1 positions accidentally mating Black. The title is rather misleading, leaving us all wondering what part of chess he's done with. I'd be done with looking at games by dunderheads and devote more time to my own prep, were I to aspire to leap from IM to GM, but he never goes into that.
DrSpudnik wrote:
magipi wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
I really, really can't force myself to watch a 20-minute Rozman-video, I got fed up after like 20 seconds. Can you sum up what's going on?
He laments his decades-long time spent with chess and then goes over the most excruciating game between two 400 players (who use very little of their 10 minutes) and who engage in both brilliancies and errors, ending with White, down massive material and in mate-in-1 positions accidentally mating Black. The title is rather misleading, leaving us all wondering what part of chess he's done with. I'd be done with looking at games by dunderheads and devote more time to my own prep, were I to aspire to leap from IM to GM, but he never goes into that.
Thank you for the summary.
When I remember that this guy is the most popular chess content creator, I always want to cry.
Levy is not "close to a GM", he busted his balls getting IM norms to become an IM. He's young enough to get it but he's not talented enough to get it. Nakamura has said he believes it won't happen, one of the things he cited is when he sees him play strong players he plays extreme defensive boring chess the entire game. This is his right to do and I have no doubt it helped him scrape a few half points from strong players for his IM title, but it doesn't bode well for him for getting to GM at all. To us it's like "well once you hit 1900, then go for 2000!", this isn't the way it works for 2400s to 2500s, there's a world of difference. It's like saying to someone who got to 2700 "might as well go for the 2800 best in the world now, you're almost there." I have never heard that Levy was almost a GM.
There's no linear increase in chess skill throughout life, if that were the case you'd have people in their 40s, 50s and beyond lining up to finally get their GM norms saying they finally had spare time and it was always something they wanted to do. Truth hurts as Ben Finegold says.