Which is higher national master or candidate master

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yikes172

My friend and I got into an argument he says that candidate master is above national master while I think it is the other way around. Which one of us is right?

Martin_Stahl
yikes172 wrote:

My friend and I got into an argument he says that candidate master is above national master while I think it is the other way around. Which one of us is right?

 

It depends on the federation involved. For the US Chess Federation, a NM is usually ranked under CM but they are really close in strength overall.