On Dec 7, 8:38 am, David Richerby
wrote:
Kenneth Sloan wrote:

Taylor Kingston wrote:
If he has beaten people with genuine FIDE ratings of 2400 many
times, only two years after learning the game, then I would say
your friend has remarkable talent. I would encourage him develop it
as much as he can, as long as he enjoys it.

What if he's only defeated Phil Innes?

Then he's already scored his first nearly-IM norm!

I think the way it works is that he would need to
defeat the 2450 nearly-an-IM Innes in a *match* in
order to get a nearly-norm. Anybody can get lucky
in one game (Rybka, Fritz 11, GM Kramnik, etc.).


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