Kenneth Sloan wrote:
David Richerby wrote:
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. :-)

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?

The wording of the FIDE regulation is `achieved at some time or other
a rating [of 2500]'. It then goes on to explain that the rating
doesn't have to have been published and could even have occurred only
in the middle of a tournament: therefore, it doesn't have to be
current when the title is granted.

I've no idea if this has changed but I don't think it's changed in the
last few years.


Dave.

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