How easy is it to become a GM?
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dpnorman
Dec 6, 2016
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Dec 7, 2016
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#242
jengaias wrote:
Master_Po wrote:
You can't become a GM without at least a 130+ IQ. Never done, never will be.
What you say has never been proved scientifically or otherwise.
In fact several researches have shown that IQ and chess are unrelated.
Highly intelligent people usually find chess boring.
Even Carlsen said that high intelligence might actually be a setback for chess.
In fact noone else except chessplayers consider chessplayers intelligent.
That must be why the top chess players all have iq less than 100 -- Carlsen must have an iq of 85 and so does every other gm !
Wow ....snowflakes .....Every one is equally stupid ...genetics determine nothing.... LOL
Dec 7, 2016
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#243
Its essy to be a GM. Quit business, job, college. Hire a GM coach. If an I M already, 2, 3 years. If just 2000, 5 to 10 years. If U1600, 10 to 20 years. If over 50 year age, try next life.
bong711 wrote:
Its essy to be a GM. Quit business, job, college. Hire a GM coach. If an I M already, 2, 3 years. If just 2000, 5 to 10 years. If U1600, 10 to 20 years. If over 50 year age, try next life.
There's no need to push your views about the after-life here. This is a chess discussion, not a classical music discussion or religion discussion. Thank you.
bong711 wrote:
You got no sense of humor. I mean forget about GM ambition if too old.
I do have a sense of humor. But there is a time and place for everything as far as I'm concerned.
Dec 7, 2016
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#247
Except the 1st and last sentence, all are facts. Nobody could reach GM as a hobby or part time activity. If gifted, No coach needed too.
Dec 7, 2016
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#248
Enrico Paoli got the GM title at 88 (and it was NOT by winning the World Senior's Chess Championship).
Why would it be impossible?
It just might be harder.
In my opinion, chess is worth playing/studying even if you don't get GM.
What about for the love of the game? Perhaps you might get a lower title one day, and then GM might be in reach!
"Everything is possible for one who believes." - Jesus
Dec 7, 2016
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#251
Jans Klovans from... Latvia?... earned his GM title at 62 or 63. Jens Kristensen was in his sixties when he won the GM title. He got it for winning the World Seniors, so he didn't have to qualify by norms... but bear in mind that some of the other competitors were Geller, Korchnoi and Smyslov!
Dec 7, 2016
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#252
Yes, its possible. But as a hobby or part time activty? Many youth made GM coz thry are neglegting their studies. School teachers are normally cooperstive.
Dec 7, 2016
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#253
The first thing you have to do is stop playing bullet (which is essentially try to win by time) and play longer games where you can actually study and learn something, then go back and play bullet later once you get your rating up if you like
blueemu wrote:
Enrico Paoli got the GM title at 88 (and it was NOT by winning the World Senior's Chess Championship).
The description that I have seen is that "Fide gave him the title honoris causa in 1996."
Dec 7, 2016
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#255
Yeah, he did not qualify on norms. He had missed a norm by half a point, as I recall.
blueemu wrote:
... He had missed a norm by half a point, as I recall.
Somewhere around the age of 61, not 88, as I understand it.
bong711 wrote:
Its easy to be a GM. Quit business, job, college...
...run out of money, house repossessed, live on the streets, starve to death...
Doesn't sound particularly easy to me.
Nigel Davies said that he got the GM title after living in a caravan (trailer) for ten months with no TV or other distractions just a board and chess books. He was already an IM at that time.
Sceadungen wrote:
Nigel Davies said that he got the GM title after living in a caravan for ten months with no TV or other distractions just a board and chess books.
Great if you've got the money and leisure...
