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Why "super grandmaster" and not "supreme grandmaster"?

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FiberOptik
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Jan 6, 2018
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"Supreme Grandmaster" is clearly way cooler. The chess world is missing a golden opportunity here.

JubilationTCornpone
JubilationTCornpone
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Jan 6, 2018
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#2

God-Emperor of Grandmasters.

pw11
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Jan 6, 2018
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#3

Gran msestro di tutti gran maestri??

president_max
president_max
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Jan 7, 2018
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#4

Trump had a better title

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/a-new-title-the-grand-chess-master

Locked by mods who couldn't handle the truth while staff posted similar content a year later

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-top-3-chess-insults

Double standards rock.

 

FiberOptik
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Jan 7, 2018
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knightguard2018 wrote:

Because supreme would only refer to 1 person. Depending on how they sing, they might get called The Supremes.

 

Supreme isn't necessarily singular.

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asdasdv
asdasdv
Jan 7, 2018
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#6

We're reserving the title of supreme for our computer overlords who will one day take over the world

Lanowyyon
Lanowyyon
Jan 7, 2018
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asdasdv wrote:

We're reserving the title of supreme for our computer overlords who will one day take over the world

Perhaps AlphaZero will become like Skynet one day indeed. Let's hope it doesn't see human players as a threat.^^