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Does Everyone want to become a chess master?
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Apr 5, 2014
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I'd love to become a master, but considering the fact I am 20 and my FIDE is only 2000 there's very few hope for me. The most important thing for me is to like playing nevertheless.
Apr 5, 2014
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#4
@Serotonine,
You're kidding right? You're ONLY 20 and you're already 2000. You're almost there!
Apr 5, 2014
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#5
achja wrote:
VahanGoldenStar,
FIDE is not exactly the most ethical and inspiring organisation ever.
Been reading about it since Campomanes was president. Recently reading a book by GM Ree, and some old news from that time is mentioned there as well.
Getting a FIDE master title (GM,IM,FM) means paying the FIDE for it after you achieved your Master results and a certain FIDE rating.
Apart from that, are you really looking forward to be a titled player, and having to "defend" your title in all of your "amateur against master" games, whether that is blitz or classic or rapid ?
GM Donner became known as a GM who lost an embarassing lot of miniature chess games.
I'd rather be not known and without title than known and with a title in that case
Fischer said Donner was the weakest GM ever.
I say yeah everyone wants to be a master, (for idiots who dont understand ideas and get technical yes there are some people who would perfer not) but who wants to put in the work, not many.
I think the ones that make it really really like chess to where is does not get boring after hours of study.
Op would you like a six pack?
Do you want a smokin girlfriend?
a lot of money?
Ability to do a backflip without a trampoline?
easy questions, they become harder when you realize there is work and tradeoffs involved.
I advise forget chess and get a smokin girlfriend, much more rewarding much less work.
as to your second point it is hard to say how many people truely try and fail to become masters.
My delusional guess would be not many most people that dont have the ability wouldn't try that much in the first place.
Mmm, you said smokin' girlfriend. ahhh. Mine will comfort me when I miss three Tactics Trainer questions in a row.
Apr 5, 2014
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#10
I advise forget chess and get a smokin girlfriend, much more rewarding much less work.
LOL! A sage piece of advice, JGambit. You can have both though. And get a bumper sticker - "I am a chess master and have a hot girlfriend too!" 
pretty much better then getting them right i would imagine
And then Magnus with say "why did you steal my bumber sticker"
Serotonine wrote:
I'd love to become a master, but considering the fact I am 20 and my FIDE is only 2000 there's very few hope for me. The most important thing for me is to like playing nevertheless.
This guy and the BYP contrast so starkly omg
I don't play chess to become a master.
I play chess as a distraction. It helps me cope. Like drugs and alcohol.
I've never read chess literature or anything like that for that matter.
All I know is from experience, a friend who got me into chess and a handful of short YouTube videos.
Apr 5, 2014
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#15
chess_gg wrote:
I am often reminded by threads like this that many who undertake chess have no real sense of how much work and dedication it takes just to become a mediocre chess player.
And I say this with sincere humility.
I am just glad that I didn't dedicate my life to chess (the pay is lousy) and have only tortured myself with it as a pastime (on and off for around 60 years).
Ive only tortured myself with chess for 42 years :)
BTW....
Banned :D
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Apr 7, 2014
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#17
achja wrote:
Serotonine wrote:
Fischer said Donner was the weakest GM ever.
hahaha. I can imagine that.
But ... Donner sometimes had very good results. One time he ended very high in a tourney with Petrosian playing as well (can't find now which tourney that was).
And here you can see that he managed to draw Fischer in a tourney :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatigorsky_Cup#Crosstable_and_cumulative_scores
There's weaker GMs though.
I've seen GM Westerinen in a tourney playing. He's a 2300 GM, but still played some amazing games.
And there's a chinese GM which dropped to 2100 smth.
One day a hero, another day a patzer and a stalemater
Perhaps so. But what percentage of people reaches that level? 1%?