Bill Gates (His title is "richest man in the world"), who passed up a winning position to lose to Carlsen.
Worst titled player
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Yes.
harryz wrote:
Do you mean lowest rating? There are some WCMs and CMs out there that won their titles from a tournament that hands out titles in age groups, and I can easily beat them
Feb 18, 2014
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yeshman wrote:
Here in Europe there are all manner of small sovereign principalities and duchies like Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Lichtenstein, and the like. Most of these small nations award NM chess titles.
Such as, how hard is it to be a "National Master" in a country that has about five registered chess players, three of whom are inactive?
Still spewing out same old BS huh.
kco; I'm gonna follow your lead on this on; not like 1899
Ok the worst titled player and he does have a British title as well is Sir Richard Branson. In the British island of necker (think its spelt like that) yes Sir Richard Branson owns the island and he is NM Of his own island. I think all NM's should have country of origin next to NM. There are thousands of unoccupied islands and you can be an NM FOR Very little. Bransons not a bad chess player but he'll be a 1200-1400 player.
You can get CM for something like winning the under-6 world championship, so those are probably the lowest.
There are kids rated ~1500 or even lower who get titles from tournaments. A few months ago I read a story about a 9 year old in England who became the youngest Britsh CM ever by getting 3rd in a tournament. In that tournament he beat a couple 1500s and a couple unrateds, and was only rated around 1600 himself.
I guess I shouldn't talk, though, since 1600 is still well above my skill level haha
Bat_who_is_man wrote:
I would say a woman but I don't want to be offensive to the abundant number of females who play chess
lol... nice use of sarcasm
I hereby nominate NM Dale. You're welcome 
Dale wrote:
Do I get a brand new Weakest Title if I win?
You win.All the other candidates aren't chess players.
Feb 19, 2014
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Ironman111 wrote:
Dale wrote:
Do I get a brand new Weakest Title if I win?
You win.All the other candidates aren't chess players.
So NM Dale is the Troll of the Month for January?
socialista wrote:
Ironman111 wrote:
Dale wrote:
Do I get a brand new Weakest Title if I win?
You win.All the other candidates aren't chess players.
So NM Dale is the Troll of the Month for January?
No.
Feb 19, 2014
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GasPedal wrote:
Here's an FM who is rated around 1300:
Good find. Really makes the point, this guy is a thousand short of the usual requirement.
Feb 19, 2014
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He got his title in the "African Youth 2012 u8 & u10".
These were his results:
| ID | Name | Country | Rating | Total | Games DB | ||
| 10800743 | Pendyala, Ritvik | KEN | 0 | 7.0 | Game | ||
| Round | Opp. name | Opp. Fed. | Title | W.Title | Opp. Rtng | Score | View |
| 1 2012-09-29 |  Denner, Duan |
RSA | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2 2012-09-30 |  Bogopa, Elang |
BOT | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 3 2012-10-01 | Kathiresan, Amaresh |
BOT | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 4 2012-10-02 | Moyo, Mpumelelo J |
ZIM | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 5 2012-10-03 | Schoeman, Ewald |
RSA | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 6 2012-10-05 | Gluckman, Paul |
RSA | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 7 2012-10-06 | Tamer, Mohamed |
EGY | 0 | 1.0 | |||
| 8 2012-10-07 | Maguwu, Tashinga |
ZIM | 0 | 0.5 | |||
| 9 2012-10-08 | Modi, Yashil |
RSA | 0 | 0.5 |
Who is it?