TheNameofNames wrote:
I think nowadays 3 years old
yea but it COULD be younger
What is the minimum grandmaster age?
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Jul 2, 2021
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TheNameofNames wrote:
ayrokx wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote:
I think nowadays 3 years old
yea but it COULD be younger
fine -10
10???
Jul 2, 2021
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Aswin_Senpai wrote:
Minimum 4 hours if you have google server connect to your brain
lol
Jul 21, 2021
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FIDE does not set a minimum age. The player need only reach 2500 elo and earn three GM norms--do well enough in three strong enough tournaments.
This was once much more difficult to accomplish, as there were far fewer GMs in the world, hence fewer tournaments with enough GMs to qualify. Nona Gaprindashvili (first woman to earn the regular GM title) had to be given a special exception--the tournaments she played in totaled one less game than required, but all sufficiently-strong tournaments were invitation-only and women didn't get invited often enough. Mikhail Tal, just before winning the world championship, also got a special exemption, as nearly all of his tournaments had players from only one nation (Soviet Union).
Today there are enough GMs around that the top section of some major tournaments are difficult enough to let players achieve norms. So an extremely strong child need only play successfully in three of these to earn the title. (Easier said than done.) So it would not be surprising to see someone else with affluent supportive parents break the new record sooner or later.
Before FIDE became established as the world's governing chess organization, a couple of chess prodigies (Jose Capablanca and Sammy Reshevsky) were astounding the chess world by winning national championships and giving simuls and demos that showed they were probably GM strength before they were 10 years old. Today such a person might become a GM at an astonishingly early age.
Jul 21, 2021
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mpaetz wrote:
FIDE does not set a minimum age. The player need only reach 2500 elo and earn three GM norms--do well enough in three strong enough tournaments.
This was once much more difficult to accomplish, as there were far fewer GMs in the world, hence fewer tournaments with enough GMs to qualify. Nona Gaprindashvili (first woman to earn the regular GM title) had to be given a special exception--the tournaments she played in totaled one less game than required, but all sufficiently-strong tournaments were invitation-only and women didn't get invited often enough. Mikhail Tal, just before winning the world championship, also got a special exemption, as nearly all of his tournaments had players from only one nation (Soviet Union).
Today there are enough GMs around that the top section of some major tournaments are difficult enough to let players achieve norms. So an extremely strong child need only play successfully in three of these to earn the title. (Easier said than done.) So it would not be surprising to see someone else with affluent supportive parents break the new record sooner or later.
Before FIDE became established as the world's governing chess organization, a couple of chess prodigies (Jose Capablanca and Sammy Reshevsky) were astounding the chess world by winning national championships and giving simuls and demos that showed they were probably GM strength before they were 10 years old. Today such a person might become a GM at an astonishingly early age.
Ok.
Records like these generally get better and better before tending towards a limit. Will this record be broken? Definitely. Will we some day have 9 year old GMs? Probably not, there's a human limit and we're approaching it.
Well, a 6,7,8 or 9 year old GM IS possible. That is, if they train early. Very rare. They need to have the enthu too. Which well, no kid younger then 8 has for chess.
That sounds like you are sure
Not so sure. But it IS possible