GM Within 6 months?

On a positive note: Even if the GM plan doesn't work out, the path to becoming a standup comedian is wide open.

Hate to break it to you, but being old is far more detrimental to becoming GM than being male or female. Most GMs (including women) started playing chess when they were 3-4 years old while their brains were more malleable. If you think only 41 women GMs is low, try looking up the number of people that became GM after 60 (I would be surprised if you could find more than a handful of examples if any). The only example I could find was Larry Kaufman who became GM at 60 in 2008. However he became IM in 1980, so it took him 28 years to go from IM to GM. If all it took to be GM was memorization then way more people would be GM. It is a shame you don't play more games online, how do you expect to improve? I think if you had crossed over 1000 in 6 months most people here would have been impressed.

There is such a thing as the World Senior Championship, and the winner gets the GM title. That's the way Kaufman got it. It's more like a "honorary" GM title than a real one.

Of course, it's still impressive by an IM to win that event.

I mean I think it is a nice thing for FIDE to do regardless. Winning an entire tournament filled with GMs (albeit retired ones) is still plenty impressive. I think the worst part of chess is the mountain of crushed dreams. There are so many aspiring youngsters that throw everything they have (including quitting school) into becoming a grand master only to fall short at the very top. Many don't even become titled players. I can't help but feel that there is someone out there that thinks they are a failure because they are only an IM and not a GM, as ridiculous as it sounds, and that makes me sad. This is not to mention that most professional chess players make but a pittance. Chess should have more of these nice small gestures to recognize all the hard work and passion many of their players put into the game (especially for the youngsters and elderly).

I have a question for the genius, how long has it taken you to get to 700 ELO in the English language?

Hello Mr. Polymath. Your initial six-month journey into the chess world is now complete. What has a man of your incredible intellect been able to accomplish in that time? Perhaps you were able to graduate beyond the novice level on another a chess site?

I can't wait for your GM certification, well, I know its a hard task. Are you even over 1500 FIDE now? That's the bare minimum, right?

Well first of all you can't be lazy "sorry, in this 'woke' world now looks you lazy is the only way to live" but if you just put in a, very little reading in this chat's history you'll be able to answer your own question and pretty much any other question you have.

But we both not you don't give a sh*t. You're just Trolling into a "once popular" thread that is pretty much dead now trolling for views to your own profile. Wonderful, actually you're laziness is probably working on this site because I'm sure you have gotten views from posting here.

Good luck!

au contraire, polymath lonnie. no one knows wtf you are trying to say rambling on about wokeness and laziness. but i do know that you are wrong when you assert in your comment that with 'very little reading in this chat's history, you'll be able to answer your own question." my question is pretty simple. what have you been able to achieve in your first six months?? no where in this entire thread is this question answered. true you have stated a long line of ever changing goals, but have you actually ACHIEVED?

oh well, look on the bright side, lonnie. you may not have been able to prove to the world that you are a polymath, but you were able to prove yourself a probable member in good standing of the two-digit IQ club!!!

Savage lol. Let the man die in peace. He had his fun, pretty sure he learned his lesson.

As a CHES shareholder I can comment on this. "The Board of Directors" voted to not allow you to play rated games which, in turn, makes "The Company" (ticker: CHES) a hefty profit. This is simple economics, I am sure I do not need to explain.

As a CHES shareholder, I have benefited greatly from this brave (albeit ruthless) new policy against you. I am fine with "The Company" continuing to ruin your chess career, and more, if it needs be, in order to continue growing my ROTH IRA.

TLDR: I am a CHES shareholder, and am benefiting from above discussed "Boeing Effect"

Oh, just found this, seems like it was aborted because I see only a very few games. Shame, I would love to see how far one you can go from beginner in six months with a lot of time on their hands. I guess this thread makes me want to go look into tyler1, as he has been recommended by youtube a lot these days, and he did something similar.

actually, i dont think he has learned his lesson. he is proving to be an exceptionally slow learner--especially for a polymath!

What a ridiculous goal lol

"Polimath" guy gave up the whole project almost immediately. He decided that getting better at chess is hard work, so let's not do it.

I wonder where you get your info from.

Andrea Botez is not a WFM, and her highest FIDE rating is below 1900. If she had any potential to become GM, her rating should have been at least 400 points higher at her current age.

It's her older sister Alexandra the one who's a WFM, and recently she had a remarkable ~2350 performance at Sardinia World Chess Festival - Open B tournament.