do you think i have a chance of a gm

i am 13 and my uscf is 1220.(just moved up a little this week). do i have a chance at gm? Please dont be mean in your comments. On average i practice 1 and a half hours a day. I practice more on weekends/

It depends on your work ethic and if you have the "right brain" to be such a strong player. I used to think there was no way I could imagine being able to find all the creative ideas grandmasters do, or calculate more than 1 move ahead (for both sides!! ), but that was when I had a low rating. Now I see myself finding much more intricate moves that are starting to come naturally to me.

So you should try to study a lot and get better and see how it goes at first. If it takes you years to get to like 1500, don't count on it, but if you keep smoothly improving, who knows. You need to really work at it though.

i think i can get to 1500 in about a year or a little bit more.

I think you'd have to get as busy as hell and have wonderful results.

I don't know of any GMs who stalled at, say, class A level for a year or two. I wager you'd have to progress quickly and steadily to be able to say I have gauged my ability and work ethic, and I might be a GM candidate.

1-1/2 hours a day doesn't sound like much for such a goal. Your other responsibilities may be in the way?

I don't have "the right brain" to give you advice

well i have school goldendog

Chances are better of becoming GM than falling through the floor via quantum tunneling.

Ah you can dump that.

hey i have a story to tell you about a tournament i went to. i played a strong 1000 and i was barely winning. he said he went to the restroom and after 10 minutes he didnt return. i thought i hit the jackpot because i would win on time. the tournament director asked me why are you sitting here. i told him i was waiting for my opponent(there was about 3 minutes left) and he said my opponent already left.    

He was probably looking for Kramnik

if you want to be a world class player in your 20s, better be at least 2300 by age 16....

sorry, but some kids are talented (yay, i'm 10, and 1830, still improving :O)

haha trysts

I've never been that lucky.

When I'm crushing someone I tend to not care what they do, relishing that my way is nicely greased.

When I'm up some I hope they get dismayed and just resign.

If I'm up just a pawn I hope they get a phone call from their wife, requiring them to go home immediately.

When it's a tight deadlock I hope for a heart attack or for them to fall out of their chair in some kind of fit (If it were my move I'd do so immediately and hit the clock)

When I'm behind--sorry, too dark to confess to.

Well I'm 1300 and I'm not gm so I wouldn't count on it

You say your birthday is Feb 1995. I don't have a degree in math, but that comes out to 15.

Hey, this guy's right! I'm higher than that and not a GM either. He can't have a chance!

" You're a daisy if you do ! "   - Doc H

To be honest 13 is very, very late to start to reach such a high goal, so unless you find some way of raising your practice/study time of 1 1/2 hours per day significantly I can't see that it's possible. Even for someone who's starting really young that's probably not enough of a commitment.

im 14 and around 1800, cant really see myself getting very near gm and i do bout 1 hour work

tbh u do rly need to start early or have extrodinary talent