Never heard of a scratch golfer.
Can Anyone Become Grandmaster?
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chess_gg wrote:
He's talking about making par...72.
Oh.
JG27Pyth a écrit :
The analogy was fine. You failed at contextualizing the numbers though.
GM is an international title, and it is given for life. There are 1441 GMs worldwide. So a more accurate comparision would be how many current US GMs are there (active and retired) versus how many active or retired NBA players are there currently alive in the US.
US GMs. According to FIDE there are currently 83 GMs with US citizenship.
You think GM is like being a scratch golfer? There are 1441 GMs in the world.
In the US 1 in 200 rated adult chess players is probably somewhere around 2000 elo -- expert level.
I re-post one of my comments from another thread :
"There are 5000 FIDE rated active player above 2300. If everyone agree that 'anyone could become 2300', that means our ratio become 1 in 4 (5000/1200 GMs). If we only consider those who have played more than 200 games (most of GMs play >50 games a year and have played for many years) in the last 4 years, and those who really worked, the ratio become 1 in 2, or even more.
Can anybody become a GM ? Absolutely not : only 5 or 8 in 10 can."
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a good plan now is better than an great plan later- who said it?
Jan 23, 2014
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bullet is exactly the same game- w less time- if the standard game last for a week.... you would be the one called haywired
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I am not a pantheist nor will i ever be an atheist (again) this is off topic
Not anyone can become a grandmaster, but grandmasters can come from anywhere.
U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D wrote:
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Indeed, my face is beautiful.
example bobby fischer
chess_gg wrote:
Not the point. Wood pushing to beat the clock is for dummies. You are living proof of that.
I like this, though...and I've seen it before. A pretty good definition of pantheism (which is the last refuge before atheism):
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death life is only a dream we are an imagination of ourselves- Bill Hicks
Pantheism came before belief in one god, so it is more correct to say belief in one god is the last refuge before atheism. Atheists just believe in one less god.
This is very strange. It's pretty clear that not anyone can be an NBA player or that not anyone can reach an olympic final. But when it comes to chess, many people apparently think that things are different, for whatever reason.
Couldn't agree more
This is a false analogy. There are thousands more GM's than there are NBA (450-500 a year), NFL (about 2000 a year) or MLB (750-900 a year) players.
The analogy was fine. You failed at contextualizing the numbers though.
There are about 450 active NBA players. That is, active professional basketball players in the US.
GM is an international title, and it is given for life. There are 1441 GMs worldwide. So a more accurate comparision would be how many current US GMs are there (active and retired) versus how many active or retired NBA players are there currently alive in the US.
US GMs. According to FIDE there are currently 83 GMs with US citizenship.
I don't know how many active or retired NBA players there are in the US, but I know the NBA has retired a 160+ jerseys.
You think GM is like being a scratch golfer? There are 1441 GMs in the world. There tens of thousands (some say more than 100 thousand) scratch golfers in the US alone.
In the US roughly 1 in 200 USGA golfers is a scratch golfer.
In the US 1 in 200 rated adult chess players is probably somewhere around 2000 elo -- expert level.