It actually took them many years of toil to acquire such skill and knowledge, even as they spurted ahead of the different levels of competition.
(While I'm no GM, my FIDO is through the roof.)
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I've played the number one player in the world and could have held a draw if I had seen a move in the endgame found afterwards by my coach. He is an IM and saw it almost instantly...Oh well.
Goldengod. You make a strong point and good job with your FIDO success. Finachetto123, congrats on playing the number one player in the world. I did play against a NM about a week ago in blitz chess and throughout the whole tournament, we wer even until I made a stupid move in the endgame. I was rated on chess.com/s live chess as in he 1000's but he told me that in that game I played about 1000 points above that. I wish you both the best off luck. I don't have much experience in playing grandmasters but I have studied many a game that they have olayed and have spent hours at a time studying their openings so that if I play them, I can have a better understanding of their style of game. Larry Christiansen for example, fierce attacker yet playes the sicilian defence most of the time. Joel Benjamin, fierce attacker, likes to play the move 1e4 some times. Bobby Fischer, strong player who used many openings including the Kings Gambit and the Ruy Lopes (I might add that I love the Ruy Lopez).
Some people say that grandmasters are like kings and queens and that they are unstopable (which I have come to agree with mostly because I have played the 5th best player in the United States and he is a very strong player) but players like Bobby Fischer, Garry kasparov, Karpov, Hikaru Nakamura, and even Magnus Carlson, otherwise known as the Mozart of Chess, seemed to have become champions overnight. They started playing at a young age and then as they began playing, something clicked in them and now they are the leading players of the world. Garry kasparov went through a slump but then made an incredible climb up the ladder to come out of his slump stronger than ever. How do these Grandmasters become legends so quickly as if they just learned every opening overnight? How do they gain such intelligence in such a short time period? How did Magnus Carlson outplay Hikaru Nakamura and then Nakamura outplay him? What would it look like through their eyes I wonder? What do you people think? I would like to get some comments from any grandmasters who are on chess.com as well.