If you break 2200 USCF, you automatically get the NM title. You don't need to apply for it.
Becoming a Grand Master
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Oh, well that's nice.
shepi13 wrote:
thoughtson64 wrote:
Dedication is a major step forward towards becoming proficient at anything. Having an open mind to learning is also needed. But I'll show my skepticism and say that for every person who claims they are dedicated to improving and study for hours a day and insist they are aiming to master this game, I'll ask for a dollar. If they succeed and become a master I'll give them $100. Because I know that saying and dreaming is one thing but doing, and sticking with it, is a monster few tackle in life.
I like to stick to realistic goals. Like for example I'm trying to break 1600 USCF by years end, and I'm over 1500 now. Setting smaller, more easily obtainable goals and pressing on seems much healthier for our self confidence, our sticking with something and completing it, and our over all well being in my opinion. Will I become a GM one day? Maybe, but it won't bother me a bit if I don't.
I would instantly take that bet too. It's strange, it seems like I was in the high 2000s forever, and all of a sudden I'm 2165!
Aug 7, 2013
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UbongAkpan wrote:
Atos wrote:
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4147855
Natalia is rated 2472 at the moment, and was rated above 2500. I am not sure why she doesn't get the GM title.
It's one thing to have the rating. It's another to have the 3 norms required. Did you know there was a GM-elect from Zambia, Amon Simutowe (that's what he was called) who got 3 norms but was below 2500 so they held the award in suspension until then....? In fact 8 other players were in the same situation. I've looked around and still can't find that he's been confirmed.
I find it incredible that he is a GM but he doesn´t have a fide rating:
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=8700168
Aug 7, 2013
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@socialista : when some national chess federation doesn't pay its fees to FIDE, the rating of their players is suspended.
Aug 7, 2013
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socialista wrote:
UbongAkpan wrote:...
It's one thing to have the rating. It's another to have the 3 norms required. Did you know there was a GM-elect from Zambia, Amon Simutowe (that's what he was called) who got 3 norms but was below 2500 so they held the award in suspension until then....? In fact 8 other players were in the same situation. I've looked around and still can't find that he's been confirmed.
I find it incredible that he is a GM but he doesn´t have a fide rating:
Well, Simutowe not only has a rating, he won the Grandmaster title the old fashioned way, by earning GM norms. His current rating is ~2485. He won the GM title in 2009.
His FIDE card is out of date because his national federation didn't keep up its dues. But his title is a lifetime title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_Simutowe
mentoring(learning from someone from higher skill level). practicing(learning better ways of playing). playing(constantly challenging opponents at or above skill level). 10 years consistent of those three things will become a master.
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"I should practice shots which I make about 70-80 percent of the time. It builds confidence(because you make most of them) but it also is challenging enough to where you have to "work" at it." hmmm... maybe there's something to it...
maybe I should play pool...
Perhaps of interest:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm
Also:
What It Takes to Become a Grandmaster by GM Andrew Soltis
read my system
Possibly of interest:
Train Like a Grandmaster by Kotov
Becoming a Grandmaster by Keene
https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm
What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis
"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf
100 Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094523/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review916.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/100-Master-Trade-Secrets-77p3835.htm
Reaching the Top?! by Peter Kurzdorfer
http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2015/11/16/book-notice-kurzdorfers-reaching-the-top.html
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Reaching-the-Top-77p3905.htm
What It Takes to Become a Grandmaster by GM Andrew Soltis
https://www.chess.com/article/view/don-t-worry-about-your-rating
https://www.chess.com/article/view/am-i-too-old-for-chess
https://www.chess.com/blog/smurfo/book-review-insanity-passion-and-addiction
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/books/books-of-the-times-when-the-child-chess-genius-becomes-the-pawn.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2017/05/05/making-a-living-in-chess-is-tough-but-the-internet-is-making-it-easier/#4284e4814850https://www.chess.com/news/view/is-there-good-money-in-chess-1838
"... Many aspiring young chess players dream of one day becoming a grandmaster and a professional. ... But ... a profession must bring in at least a certain regular income even if one is not too demanding. ... The usual prize money in Open tournaments is meagre. ... The higher the prizes, the greater the competition. ... With a possibly not very high and irregular income for several decades the amount of money one can save for old age remains really modest. ... Anyone who wants to reach his maximum must concentrate totally on chess. That involves important compromises with or giving up on his education. ... it is a question of personal life planning and when deciding it is necessary to be fully conscious of the various possibilities, limitations and risks. ... a future professional must really love chess and ... be prepared to work very hard for it. ... It is all too frequent that a wrong evaluation is made of what a talented player can achieve. ... Most players have the potential for a certain level; once they have reached it they can only make further progress with a great effort. ... anyone who is unlikely to attain a high playing strength should on no account turn professional. ... Anyone who does not meet these top criteria can only try to earn his living with public appearances, chess publishing or activity as a trainer. But there is a lack of offers and these are not particularly well paid. For jobs which involve appearing in public, moreover, certain non-chess qualities are required. ... a relevant 'stage presence' and required sociability. ... All these jobs and existences, moreover, have hanging above them the sword of Damocles of general economic conditions. ... around [age] 40 chess players ... find that their performances are noticeably tailing off. ..." - from a 12 page chapter on becoming a chess professional in the book, Luther's Chess Reformation by GM Thomas Luther (2016)
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/LuthersChessReformation-excerpt.pdf
You might as well apply for that NM title.
If only for free chess.com membership and some recognition on this site! (and in the general chess world)