Any grandmasters who started late?

https://www.chess.com/news/view/visually-impaired-daniel-pulvett-grandmaster-norm

31 year old visually impaired Daniel Pulvett

Ehum, I know nothing about mandarin, cantonese or any other language used in China but this wiki version: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B6%E6%B1%9F%E5%B7%9D does have a link to what appears to be xiangqi and year 1974. If that means he started playing in a club or learned for the first time, I have no idea.

chinese players are really good and admirable, its pretty cool seeing how he got it after 18

oh looking at old articles i found member link people like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Aagaard

maybe a good example?

Oh, yeah, that seems to say he started learning Chinese chess (xiangqi) at 14.

I think they're more interested in people who began playing chess at a late age, not people who got the title at a late age.

ah well idk then i just used that random link from an old forum i saw

its kinda hard to say modernly who started late and got GM, its pretty hard to find records

Yeah that's true. For top players we can use wiki, but it's pretty obvious top players started young. There are about 1000 other GMs.

Almost every well established and mature highly competitive activity will have its top 1% players (grandmasters, champions, elites, etc.) among people who either started very early and had talent or started late but had experience in any other similar or semi-similar competitive activity. Anyone else would have better luck looking for lesser know or very new activities. 

Rubinstein, born in 1880, learned how to play chess at the age of 16. Even though he never played for the WC he may have been the strongest player in the world in 1912. 

I heard Rubinstein began at age 14 (not 16), yet didn't become more competitive with his chess devotion until his 20s. Nevertheless, as you say, he was arguably the strongest chess player in the world just before WWI. Shame he never got his WC match

Now, wikipedia isn't the best source but Akiba Rubinstein learned to play chess at 14 according to it. Since the articles gives that he won over Capablanca and Schlechter in his youth and should have played Lasker before WW1 started, lets see when they started playing: Capablanca@4, Lasker@11 and Schlechter@13 . 

Kinda begs the question what was the usual starting age for the top player in late 1800-early 1900 compared to today.

To be fair, I have no idea how different that game is and how much would it help because of that. Plus if he started playing it at the age of 14, that seems like a little bit more than nothing.

...started doing what late ?

started chess late

...ohhh. k.

And there are many gms who did other nice jobs + achieved titles in 50's which is possible NOW also.. It just takes passion and determination

And most, if not all of them: 

• Started playing chess early (now, it does seem that 11-14 is not "to late" to start)
• Played seriously for many years and spent their 6-8 hours per day on chess at the club
• Had talant 
• Achieved some kind of master title, often IM or close to that, before stoping playing
• (This one I am less sure about) Probably continued study and play chess through out the years they weren't active

So achieving GM in their 50's when they already have IM or something close is not the same as starting chess in their 50's and getting to GM without previous experience in chess or any similar game.

This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aman_Hambleton? The one who started chess at five (5) and played in his first tournament at six (6)?