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can i become a GM in 30 days?
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Mandy711 wrote:
pujara123 wrote:
i am 1423 and if i play and learn chess 24 hours a day with no breaks, can i?
It does not matter how much you study. ELO points are gained by playing rated games. You cannot even earn a National master's title in 30 days from 1423 elo by playing and winning everyday's rated game.
What if you are rated 1423 and get 1st place in the open section of any tournaments that have an average rating of 2200...
yes it's possible if you have a computer in your pocket or shoe
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If it takes you more than two weeks I'm afraid it's hopeless.
You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.
Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
It's taking me around a month just to finish Secrets of Pawn Endings (at least a couple hours a day on average studying) and that's counting reviewing things I didn't quite understand at first, playing out positions where they stop the analysis out against myself to understand further, problems that need to be taken seriously, and even one page in places will take awhile. The complicated cases chapter especially can take awhile just for one page.
And this is a book for class C through expert (I think?), and covers only one kind of one phase: pawn endings (though the simplication section has other endgames but within the context of when to exchange down into a pawn ending and positions with queens get a lot of coverage since with promotion it's a logical conclusion).
You need to spend some time tackling more basic stuff before moving onto it, then you need to study opening and middlegame principles, game collections, etc. A serious study takes a lot of time for each particular topic. One book may take you months to work through properly.
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Mar 13, 2014
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#53
Let's pretend for a moment.
First of all, let's pretend that the OP is incredibly talented, has unlimited resources, and wants nothing more than to become a GM in a month. Well, that would mean he's not going to do it the normal way, by winning three norms and getting his rating over 2500, there isn't enough time in a month to compete in three GM-normed events. That leaves winning a major international title such as World Junior Champion.
There is no such tournament scheduled in the next 30 days. The closest thing is the World Amateur Championship, held in Singapore starting on April 25th. The winner of that title will earn a FM/WFM title.
So categorically, there is absolutely no chance of anyone winning a GM title in the next 30 days unless they already own at least two GM norms and are very close to 2500 FIDE.
Since it's been longer than that since you posted this, no.
Mar 13, 2014
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achja wrote:
pujara123 wrote:
can i?
I'm curious to hear why you want to be a GrandMaster ?
Looking at your stats here and your postings, my quick conclusion is that you are playing very few chess games, especially not very much slow time control chess games.
How long are playing chess already ? And how much did you study ?
... I was just thinking of an anecdote I heard years ago.
Some journalist asked Gary Kasparov whether some IM could become GM.
Kasparov asked "What age is he ?". The journalist replied with the age of that IM, and Kasparov said something like "No, forget it".
Age matters in chess most of the time.
Talent matters, and if little talent, hard work matters more :)
I feel like IMs have been making GM at a pretty decent clip in the US recently - Kaufmann, Molner, Krush, Finegold.
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no LOL
With a rating of 1250ish for everything except online, you could barely beat the medium players on this website, not even counting the people who only play in nationally ranked/international tournaments
I'm rated USCF 1320. What if I play in the open sections at tournaments and win some of them where the average rating in those sections are 2200?
holon23 wrote:
can i play guitar like yngwie malmsteen in one month?
can i play piano like horowitz in one month?
can i have sex with 30 different girls in one month? (A)
can i travel to the moon in one month?
can i start a business and be rich in one month? (B)
can i end a chemical bachelor engineering in one month?
can i memorize all openings and variations in one month?
can i become god in one month?
can i destroy the universe in one month? (C)
can i just do anything i want in one month? (D)
A is possible with enough practice, or enough money.
B is possible with insane amounts of luck, equivalent to getting your three norms by playing random moves that happen to be Houdini's first choice by mere chance.
C is hard, but destroying the Earth is possible if you have the good connections.
D is possible :
There is a persistent delusion that anyone can become a grandmaster just by practicing hard enough. The people who hold most strongly to this notion tend to be fairly weak players who have never actually played a grandmaster, international master, of even FIDE master. It takes a certain amount of chess skill to appreciate how enormous the gap is between a grandmaster and even an experienced club player.
About a year ago I attended a simul by Hikaru Nakamura. He took on 39 chess entusiasts, the vast majority of whom were USCF rated. That number included several USCF Experts (2000-2199). In just around two hours, Nakamura had compliled a result of 38 wins and 1 draw, while spending an average of about 5 seconds a move. The difference between the average player and a grandmaster isn't about knowing a few more rules and patterns.
Yeah I remember studying some Kasparov simul games where he'd thoroughly dunk experts and even NMs.
Here Kasparov takes out a near FM in a simul: