David Richerby wrote:
SAT W-7 wrote:
He is 2400 ELO , and he wants to be a GM ?
That is a good question , how hard is it to go from 2400 ELO to GM
ELO ????
I think he has to get to " international master" first ..

There's no requirement to become an International Master before
becoming a Grandmaster. Essentially, in order to become an IM or GM,
you have to do well enough in enough FIDE-rated tournaments against
strong-enough opinion and have had a FIDE rating of over 2400 (IM) or
2500 (GM). The definitions of `enough' in the three places I've used
it depend on whether you want to become an IM or GM. See

http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=B0101

for the gory technicalities.

There's no time requirement, so you could, *in theory*, obtain your
2500 rating aged six, then fall down to 1000, and win three GM
tournaments over fifty years and you'd still qualify as a GM, even if
you were still rated under 2500. Of course, that's extremely
unlikely. :-)


Dave.

I was under the impression that the rating requirement was as of the
date the title was granted. Did that change? Or, did I just have it
wrong all the time?

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