do u think I can become World Champion

If you try a LOT

It's a sad fact of life, but if you're not 2000+ at this stage, you aren't going to make it to world champ, GM maybe, but not world champ.

In a long time with lot of hard work yes

Nah man

Maybe but i doubt it

Gotta beat carlson

Yes. And every other kids that asks. We're going to have so many world champions.

Not if you outlive him

Nope

Is there a strong chess player named "Carlson"? I don't know any.

I'm saying it is humanly possible for her to become the world champ. Being the GOAT to teleportation to be taken as an actual comparison is absolute braindead.

Why yes its unlikely to happen but its possible, and the question was is it possible.

If 100 people want to be world champion, well one of them will be world champion.

And he doesnt have to beat Carlsen, Carlsen already isnt the world champion anymore right now.

Even if he still is the highest rated player of the world.

I just saw the 2018 World Championship game 1, and Jen and Yasser said that, 'a woman will become a contender at some point'. I quit at that point. To flood the World Championship, between top males, with feminist nonsense is obscene, and very dull at this point. A few comments were made of the nature, but Jen is known for her aggressive female approach to such things. There is no evidence that a woman will ever fight for the title, and this has never happened in history, and no woman has ever had the rating required to do so. Polgar was the closest, and she was nowhere near the top. She was maybe rank #50 in her prime some time ago. To actually be serious about becoming World Champion, you need to be rank #5 or so, and early in life. You also likely don't even want to consider it unless you're rank #1 or #2.

Put it this way: almost every single World Champion was a genius in childhood, and a very strong player by age 15, often around GM level, if not already a GM. That means, about 2500 Elo and a true strength of at least 2550. Since children grow quick, and they lack the knowledge base for a stable reading, their ratings are misleading. They are often stronger than they appear, but not all of them grow into #1 players in adulthood, however. In fact, most of them are top 10 at best. As a result, you don't 'work to the top' or ask about it -- you just find yourself there, and early. Therefore, it very likely doesn't apply to anybody over the age of 15 today.

Maybe people don't fully understand the difference between 2500 and 2800, and also 2000 and 2500, etc. Every major jump is almost impossible, and is rarely achieved merely with hard work.

The simplest way to get insight into this is to note that the World Champions and could-be World Champions are in the %tile. This means, if you have 100 people in a room, you're pretty much the only 1 in this category.

Compare this to 2000 -- a professional, or absolute top club player. Around expert level. This is around 95th %tile. This means, if you put 100 people in a room, you're in the top 5. 4 others are there with you, however.

Note that when you're 300 points behind somebody, it's very rare to gain a win. To be twice as good as somebody is a 200-point gap. To win every single game is about 800-point gap (a few draws at best).

Look at the number of people with 1500+, 2000+, 2500+, and 2800+ ratings for clarity. Difficult to judge, since there are many ways to count: online Chess, FIDE, total, etc. But see below for an idea.

1500+ = 400,000+ players (more across all platforms, etc.)
2500+ = 1,000+ active players (often even fewer) (over 2,000 Grandmasters in total; most inactive and/or below 2500 rating currently)
2800+ = 10+ players (any given cycle); it's actually only 2 right now

Most Chess players are rated between 400 and 1400, and never climb any higher for whatever reason. There are maybe 400 million Chess players in the world, making it the most popular game. It's profoundly difficult.

22 World Champions have existed, and only about 40 could have ever been World Champion, making it one of the hardest and rarest things in sport and game history. Only 18 of those were Classical Champions, as well.

You need 2800 rating to be World Champion, and this has largely been the case since 1972. Fischer was clearly around 2800 in performance, and had live rating of 2785. Since then, every World Champion has had 2800 or beyond, other than Karpov, post-Fischer, I believe.

There has been only about 19 players to reach 2800 rating in history. However, some of them were close and could have certainly won the title; others were the best in the world but pre-FIDE and/or pre-Elo. Morphy was 2600 strength at best, far beyond everybody else. Tal was 2700 strength, but was very difficult to deal with.

Today, you require a computer-like universal style, like Fischer 3.0. And you likely want to study many hours a day since childhood. You also need to use coaches and engines to a very high standard. You need the will and personality for it. And you need to carefully study your opponents for months and prep many deep openings, or have a brain like Carlsen's.

Since Carlsen is no longer World Champion, it's easier than ever to become World Champion, but this fact still only applies to a handful of top GMs today. Who knows what the future holds, of course. But we can be certain that nobody on Chess dot com is ever going to become World Champion unless he's currently (a) a child; and (b) very high rated.

Even this isn't quite soul-crushing enough. Unless you're a child, you should already be 2600 if you're even going to consider World Championship.

Most World Champions began their journey at about 1900 in childhood. Then, they quickly grew into the 2000s in their teenage years, with some of them already jumping to 2600. You should know if you're going to be World Champion by age 20. You'll know this because you'll be rank #1-5 in the world and have a rating of 2750-2800 (classically speaking, this means, to be 2600 or whatever the highest is at that time).

I don't think any serious or long-lasting Champion was ever bad in teenage years, and was ever below rank #10.

For example:

Carlsen was rank #1 or #5 at worst between about 2008 and 2025 so far. And he was rank #1 for most of those years. He was rated between about 2700 and 2833 (peaked at 2882, with 2889 unpublished). He was 16 to begin with.

Fischer was about rank #8 to #1 between 1958 and 1972 (GM/age 15 to World Champion). And he was rank #1 for most of those years. He was rated about 2550-2600 to 2785, with unpublished rating of 2820 in 1971 after beating Larsen 6-0 (?). He was 15 to begin with.

Kasparov was rank #1 between about 1984 and 2005 (he quit in 2005). He was rated between 2700 and 2851, give or take. Unpublished peak of about 2863, if I can recall. He was 21 to begin with.

Most of the Soviet Champions were great teenage players and rated roughly #1-5 in the world for decades, with ratings of 2650 or so. This would be 1947 through the 1970s. They only became World Champion whenever they were rank #1-3, I believe.

Out of maybe 400 million active Chess players in the world, and likely 1 billion across time, there have been only 22 World Champions. It's one of the most difficult things to achieve in life. Only 18 held the Classical title, and some of them only gained it due to others quitting, which would bring the total list down to about 15.

Stop trying to be smart. That's not how it works, and you're just trying to be a jerk. No one thinks you're funny, and you should probably go back to kindergarten if you aren't in kindergarten right now and stay there for the rest of your life because I doubt that no matter how hard you try, you won't understand a SINGLE logical aspect of mathematics. I'm not going to waste my time, but I'll tell you one thing.

Just because you think you're smart and cool and whatever's pounded into your head doesn't mean that everyone thinks that. Actually, everyone KNOWS that you aren't those things.

Reach for the stars, if you don't touch them at least you land on the moon.

Well actually if you want to become the world champion like the thing is that you need to study a lot of books on chess probably 700 pages or longer everyday dedicate 7 to 8 hours to chess every dayy play in tournaments even if there out of your country play OTB and a lot of more things if you think you can do this then you can become a titled player or even the top 10 like judit polgar

But to become the world champion actually it is like kind of very hard like you need to be the best in the whole world most of us cannot even achieve the grandmaster title let alone becoming the world champion

But one thing is also there that competition is very much but yes if you can do all this and you have started early then chances are that you can achieve it

anyone can become world champion if they're not like 50