How good can 25-year-old become in chess?

How good can someone 25 year old become? If you assume that he is a weak player when he starts training at age of 25.

Most people here say it is not possible for them to become grandmasters or even international masters.

Is it possible for them to become a fide master?

Is becoming a fide master a meaningful long term goal?

What is a high achievable goal for someone 25 year old?

FM may be possible, but is probably impractical.

In any case, to reach your "high achievable goal" you should enjoy learning and playing as much as you can. If you're worried about what your rating is you'll probably fall short of your best.

The only way to determine your "limit" is to wait 80 years to see if you made it.

there does not currently exist any machine that can tell you this information...

So it is not really constructive to wonder what your limits are - just try and have fun while you're at it. You might be pleasantly surprised in your potential...

If he/she can reach 2000 it's a very decent achievement imo.

Forget about titles and learn, improve, and have fun!

You need really strong nerves and the will to win for what your seeking there's are players who can take unbelivable stress and pressure fatigue like Lasker and Peter Svidler lesser men? they'll crack under a tiny little fraction of the pressure GM's like that can endure at the board.

Some men end up in the hospital and have nervous breakdowns, some men quit chess after devasating losses because the shock is too much for them they break like a mirror that crashes on the floor into a 1000 tiny little pieces they aren't same again broken.

In one of Richard Reti's book's I read Lasker said that he knew masters who went back to their hotel rooms who couldn't eat or sleep nothing would cheer them up or get them to come out after a devastating loss.

It's a war of nerves you've got what it takes to fight and survive that or you don't you aren't going to make it very far.

I'm not telling you this to discourage you it's just the way it is.

At least Master is possible. If it hasn't happened yet, the world awaits you to be the first. The nay-sayers will say nay.

nay-sayers are just horses

remember that !

the ways of a great master are cloaked in mystery...

but most (great masters) begin when they are good deal younger than 25.  certainly though a 25year old can enjoy the game and improve as a chess player.  A 99 year old can as well.  

isn't that enough?  

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As to how much you can improve - I'm not sure. It's a matter of dedication & perseverance. I, too, believe that a Master Level is attainable. May take 10 or more years but definitely possibe.

Maybe WC if he or she talk to board.........just kidding....;-)

One can always be a World Champion. It would have to be a very small World though. :) Just like we, the inhabitants of planet Earth are calling our place "the Word," one can shrink the concept of the World and estabish him/her-self as a champion of thereof. :)

another stupid  post-how would we know duh

Mikhail Chigorin learned to play chess at 16, but he didn't take the game seriously until he was 24.

He played the immortal Steinitz for the World Chess Championship twice. He lost the second match by only two games.

Chigorin took second place at the huge Hastings 1895 tournament -- ahead of Lasker, Tarrasch and Steinitz.

I don't know if a 25 year-old starter could storm the heights as Chigorin did, but I'm sure with talent he has plenty of room to move.

With time and perseverance I'd guess 2000 Elo would be attainable. With obsessive interest and a degree of talent maybe 2200.

Unfortunately any measure of achievement in chess is ultimately meaningless as an end goal, save for world champion.

NM, IM, GM, it's all bullshit.

There's only playing strength, which is continuous and has no meaningful discrete milestones.

We've been over this territory a bunch of times.

The main problem with a 25 year-old starting chess is that chess requires thousands of hours of study and practice and for the vast majority of 25 year-olds, they just plain don't have the time.

Unlike children or teenagers, most twenty-somethings are starting careers or families or both. They can't go into obsessive Bobby Fischer mode where all they do is play chess.

I remember reading in Chess Life about a fellow making master at 60.

Can one learn chess at 25? Yes

Can one become a master after that? Yes [ If you study, analyze and play as per your coach's suggestions]

Can one become a Grandmaster after that? Yes [If you have the 'burning desire' and devote all your time to chess, along with having the necessary factors involved]

............. Will 'you' be able to do it? Only you can answer that!