Too late to become GM?

Sorry but reality is quite different a player needs killer instincts and fighting spirit, will to win, strong nerves and guts besides the other stuff like knowledge natural ability and talent and remember players who want to be GMs have to pay their dues and fight all the way up the Fide rating ladder and beat other players strong as an OX just as good or much better than them and even if they make it up the ladder there's no guarantee they'll become GM's.

Not everyone has what it takes to fight a war of nerves with a killer 3-4 feet from their face for hours under extreme pressure and stress one mistake at a very critical moment and it's over.

It's true!!!! *cries*

What music?

So publishers and potential students can take you seriously. 

@rdecredico why aren't you a GM then???

Chigorin didn't even start chess until he was 25 and became one of the best players of all time fool. 

Never too late. To be titled.

I am 225 pounds. Your question is like me going on a discussion forum and asking, "I am 63 years old and 225 pounds. What are the chances of my getting to 180?" It would be idiotic for anyone to speculate about my chances of losing 45 pounds without knowing anything else about me such as my height, exercise and diet habits, body fat percentage, etc.

A good response, though, might be, "Write back and ask the same question again when you hit 215 pounds. If you can't hit 215, then your chances are about zero."

So here's the same response for you: Write back and ask the same question again when you're 1500. If you can't hit that, then I'd say your chances are about zero.

Oh, I'm sorry!! I thought you were serious for a minute! Then I read your profile. You appear to be 114 years old and living in North Korea, though somehow you get out to go to Antarctica once in a while. Also, your FIDE rating is already 2843, putting you in the super-GM class. That clears up everything! You weren't asking a serious question at all; you just wanted to troll the forum and see if you could get anyone to bite.

@MSteen great answer!!!

you guys are taking this way too seriously...

MSteen wrote:

I am 225 pounds. Your question is like me going on a discussion forum and asking, "I am 63 years old and 225 pounds. What are the chances of my getting to 180?" It would be idiotic for anyone to speculate about my chances of losing 45 pounds without knowing anything else about me such as my height, exercise and diet habits, body fat percentage, etc.

A good response, though, might be, "Write back and ask the same question again when you hit 215 pounds. If you can't hit 215, then your chances are about zero."

So here's the same response for you: Write back and ask the same question again when you're 1500. If you can't hit that, then I'd say your chances are about zero.

Oh, I'm sorry!! I thought you were serious for a minute! Then I read your profile. You appear to be 114 years old and living in North Korea, though somehow you get out to go to Antarctica once in a while. Also, your FIDE rating is already 2843, putting you in the super-GM class. That clears up everything! You weren't asking a serious question at all; you just wanted to troll the forum and see if you could get anyone to bite.

If you weren't so busy shouting "TROLL ALERT!!" you could look on my progress through one year and make a standpoint from that. And perhaps read the rest I've been saying in the topic

LouisCreed wrote:

you guys are taking this way too seriously...

What are you even doing here

Jadulla wrote:

LouisCreed wrote:

you guys are taking this way too seriously...

What are you even doing here

He doesn't need your permission to post here unless you block him.

Everything you have written here have been off-topic, so I don't really feel bad about it

OK, maybe you weren't trolling. So here's a serious answer. If you have it in you to make GM, you already know it. You don't have to ask anyone on this forum. Let's say you're 16 and not 114. By that age you have already proved that you have some serious chess talent. You have participated in a large number of OTB tournaments, and you have seen your rating increase exponentially. If you have it in you to make GM, you are without doubt already at least a master at 16. No one needs to validate your talent for you because you know you've got it, and you are soaring ahead on sheer skill, enormous amounts of study, and analysis with some top-notch players.

Making GM is not just a matter of time, like reading all of Shakespeare. It's a matter of skill, determination, access to premier tournaments (and the $$$ to get there), and a ruthless will to win. Your progress here on chess.com really shows nothing about your ability to move from where you are to GM. Though I will say this: I HAVE looked at your record on chess.com, and though your standard rating has improved a lot, it's only over a relatively small number of games. On the other hand, you have played hundreds of blitz games, and you are at 1209. That alone argues that you will never make GM. They have phenomenally quick sight of the board, and a 1209 rating suggests that you do not. However, only when you get out into the world of actual tournaments and test your mettle against the best will you have any idea of where you stand.

So I repeat what I said before, when you hit, say, 1800 (not 1500) in OTB tournaments, come back and ask the same question again. If that's your rating after your 1st tournament or 2, then you may have the potential. If it takes you a year or more to get there, you will never ever make GM.

...and it takes a hopeful outlook