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How many grandmasters can you name
FIDE started awarding the title of International Grandmaster in 1950. Henry Bird, Richard Reti, Karel Traxler, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca had all passed away by 1942.
The first FIDE-certified Grandmasters would be people like Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, David Bronstein, Paul Keres and Max Euwe.
The Cazar awarded the title of grandmaster to players in 1907.
Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:
The Cazar awarded the title of grandmaster to players in 1907.
Edward Winter thinks this story was apocryphal made up by later writers. The St. Petersburg tournament was in 1914, and both Lasker and Tarrasch released tournament books without mentioning any GM title.
Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:
The Cazar awarded the title of grandmaster to players in 1907.
Edward Winter thinks this story was apocryphal made up by later writers. The St. Petersburg tournament was in 1914, and both Lasker and Tarrasch released tournament books without mentioning any GM title.
You're right. This is the tournament I was thinking of.
In the Ostend tournament of 1907 the term grandmaster (Großmeister in German) was used. The tournament was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament. The Championship section was for players who had previously won an international tournament.[2] Siegbert Tarraschwon the Championship section, over Carl Schlechter, Dawid Janowski, Frank Marshall, Amos Burn, and Mikhail Chigorin. These players were described as grandmasters for the purposes of the tournament.
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American GM authors: Lev Alburt, Maurice Ashley, Joel Benjamin, Pal Benko, Walter Browne, Larry Christiansen, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Larry Evans, Eduard Gufeld, Boris Gulko, Ron Henley, Lubomir Kavalek, Anatoly Lein, William Lombardy, Edmar Mednis, Eugene Perelshteyn, Anthony Saidy, Leonid Shamkovich, Andrew Soltis, Patrick Wolff, Alex Yermolinsky
British GM authors: Jacob Aagaard, Nigel Davies, John Emms, Glenn Flear, Joe Gallagher, Danny Gormally, Julian Hodgson, James Howell, Raymond Keene, Neil McDonald, Tony Miles, Paul Motwani, John Nunn, James Plaskett, Matthew Sadler, Jon Speelman, Jonathan Tisdall, Chris Ward, Simon Williams
Russian GM authors: Yuri Balashov, Igor Bondarevsky, Alexey Dreev, Alexander Morozevich, Ruslan Scherbakov, Sergei Shipov, Alexei Suetin
German GM authors: Vlastimil Hort, Robert Hübner, Karsten Müller, Ludek Pachman
Hungarian GM authors: Géza Maróczy, Judit Polgar, Lajos Portisch
French GM authors: Christian Bauer, Josif Dorfman, Savielly Tartakower
other country's GM authors: Boris Avrukh, Valeri Beim, Victor Bologan, Zenon Franco Ocampos, Jesus de la Villa Garcia, Lubomir Ftacnik, Kiril Georgiev, Anish Giri, Svetozar Gligoric, Efstratios Grivas, Lars Bo Hansen, Johan Hellsten, Vlastimil Jansa, Michal Krasenkow, Bent Larsen, Aleksandar Matanovic, Mihail Marin, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Miguel Najdorf, Milos Pavlovic, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Dorian Rogozenko, Alfonso Romero Holmes, Lars Schandorff, Ivan Sokolov, Branko Tadic, Vladimir Tukmakov, Jouni Yrjola

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