What are the requirements to acquire titles?

One day, somewhere and sometime in the future, I hope to get a National Master title.

What are all of the requirements of getting it? (If it helps, im in the uscf)

What about FM, IM, GM titles?

I heard you have to do norms and continuous rating performance stuff to ensure that you keep your title.

Can someone clarify this situation?

Make sure never to migrate to Germany, because we don't have NM titles.

Different national chess federations award National Master titles.  Some don't.  I've noticed that most national federations of English and Spanish speaking countries, as well as Italy and Portugal, award the NM title, while northern European countries usually don't.

Hope this helps.

For example, the NM title is awarded in Canada, the USA, many of the Caribbean island nations, and most of the South American nations.  I'm not sure about Mexico.

It's rather strange in England. Yes, the NM title exists, but most players who attain the required grading (rating), choose not to apply for the NM title. It is not held in high regard, not sure why.

All these posts and nothing about a few sentences of an explanation of how to get the NM title in uscf.....

http://www.glicko.net/ratings/titles.pdf

http://www.ncchess.org/wordpress/2011/06/the-uscf-title-system/

Google.

I want this post to be a post that people can see on google if they search for it.

The requirements for obtaining the NM title from USCF are cut-and-dry and easily found.

We are onto more fertile ground with the discussion of comparative NM titles around the world.

For instance, what about nations that do not have a chess federation?  What's stopping a handful of people from getting together and declaring themselves the first official chess federation of Nation X, and then declaring themselves and all their cohorts to be National Masters?

So do I have to get a 2200 rating, and nothing else?

Even Wikipedia has an article concerning this matter.

In Germany I'm under the impression that old school players think that titles should be something very rare and difficult to achieve - even the FIDE CM title was considered a step in the wrong direction by many. Maybe it's similar in the UK.

Yes, that's most likely it. I asked one player who had been above 2200 FIDE (CM title) and 200 ECF (NM title) why he had never claimed any title. He said "I want the FM title".

Again, is there a set number of norms required to get the NM title or is it just that you need a 2200 and absolutely nothing else?!

Okay according to achjas post it looks like its just a 2200 rating is required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_title#United_States

The United States Chess Federation (USCF) awards the Title of National Master to anyone who achieves a USCF rating of 2200

It cannot be any clearer.

Oy, I thought you may have to do norms and stuff, wasn't sure if it was part of the title

At least the first title, of any system that I have seen, is awarded soley for achieving a given rating. In FIDE, both CM and FM are awarded for nothing more than the right rating.

Death and taxes, nothing surer.

I know the Wikipedia .en has some info on it, but that's only because it evolved from my contributions on the subject.  I originated the "National Master" article on Wikipedia last year.  Editors later pared it down, then finally merged the article to "Chess title".  In any case, here is the article I had written for Wikipedia.  It is more comprehensive than the one that exists on the subject today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Master&oldid=542524864