Can Anyone Become Grandmaster?

i was sleeping at the time, so i guess you could say that kco!

i don't think everyone can be a GM but you won't know till you try really hard and with lots of motivation and interest in chess positions.

i think so too

Maybe 40% talent and 60% hardwork and determination? I know I am very very far from being a GM but I believe in hardwork. I'm an aspiring basketball player in my country though I'm just 5'5" tall and I can somehow stand up(do crossovers since I'm a point guard) against taller players since I work hard to improve. my game

you know the karate champion of holland once said, a smaller guy can easily beat a bigger guy with superior technique. But only if they have absolute the same techniquel skill then the bigger guy wins.

turns out if anyone achieves the requisite number of GM norms and surpasses a minimum rating, then anyone can be a GM.

Sorry but I don't get it, English is not my native

For the longest time I never thought I could be a master, much less a grandmaster. That changed when I was watching chess analysis on youtube. I kept watching these great players make these blunders or make these great moves and I was able to see them. Chess is all about applied knowledge. Its all about developing a skill set.  I would say the average person could develop into a master...now, a Grandmaster is a bit different because you have to have so many grandmaster norms to get it...but, if a person got good enough to be a master (which, as I said before, the average person could ) then I see no reason why the average person couldnt attain Grandmaster. I recently attained GrandPatzer. I have a shirt to prove it!

Didn't Botvinik say something like"This boy has no talent and future in chess" about Karpov?How then did Karpov manage to become one of the very best?

it means you can most likely beat all bigger guys unless they perfected technique, what ofc they probably haven´t because they dont find it necessary.

he was handcuffed too ... anyway, serves him right for being such a show-off.

Ok maybe not everyone can beomce GM, but i could.

LOL.

I really don't know if everyone can become a GM... but why would you want to? If you have a very motivating answer, I think you could go very far. And "to be the best" , or "to become famous (and get rich)" aren't great answers... - or that's what I think.

i want to be become GM because im very insecure, if i become GM i belong to small closed group and feel special.

Well paul i didnt say im going for it, i just said i could.

Congratz! :)

It sounds like you're an awfully strange and naive fellow. Let's be realistic for a moment, even if you dedicated your life to chess you wouldn't become a GM. The which is simply nonsense.

im strange and naive? i mean the chance for me becomming GM is greater then winning the jackpot in the lottery and still everyone buys tickets. 

Luck and ability are two completely different things, one should not be mistaken for the other. Yes, it's possible that you could, if you so wished to dedicate your life to chess, become a GM... but it's a notion which many would disregard as unlikely - much like winning the lottery. My point is: you have no right to spout nonsense without the backing of evidence.

technically speaking you also have no evidence. Anyway, ofc just for the sake of argument if its a special ability one needs to have, then its still a mater of luck if i have the ability or not. And for me to have the ability is much more likely then winning the jackpot in the lottery, so im absolutely correct in my statement.