"PeteCasso" wrote in message
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Guys, be happy for chess and India that Anand manages to popularize the
game
to such a great extent! In that light, who cares about names of
tournaments!

That`s correct Pete, on my side it was only an ironic reply to Ian Burton`s
post ;-)
BTW IMHO the present (FIDE or sth else) WorldChessChamp should play as often
as possible to popularize chess.

Regards,
Jerzy

"Jerzy" wrote in message
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"ian burton" wrote in message
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The term Super GM Tournament is reserved for tournaments in which the
players all have a rating of 2700 or better. This is no Super
Tournament.

As a matter of fact there is no such a title as Super GM. Thus there are,
in
fact, no Super GM Tournaments :-)

True enough, but the term is common and is accepted to mean a tournament
with 2700 players only.
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"ian burton" wrote in message
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As a matter of fact there is no such a title as Super GM. Thus there
are,
in
fact, no Super GM Tournaments :-)

True enough, but the term is common and is accepted to mean a tournament
with 2700 players only.

Anyway it`s not correct to call officially such tournaments Super GM
Tournaments until there is no such a title.

I postulated once in rgcm group an introduction of such titles. Siegbert
Tarrasch used to say that there should be 16 grandmasters in the world, the
strongest 16 players, and the 17th should be automatically excluded from the
list. However there has been no response from FIDE officials yet :-)

Regards,
Jerzy

Siegbert
Tarrasch used to say that there should be 16 grandmasters in the world,
the
strongest 16 players, and the 17th should be automatically excluded from
the
list. However there has been no response from FIDE officials yet :-)

Not quite true, there is a response from FIDE in this regard, see:

http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml

As you can see, the 16 grandmasters have 2700+ ratings, the others have
lower ratings.

On 2004-09-06, Jerzy wrote:

I postulated once in rgcm group an introduction of [super GM] titles. Siegbert
Tarrasch used to say that there should be 16 grandmasters in the world, the
strongest 16 players, and the 17th should be automatically excluded from the
list. However there has been no response from FIDE officials yet :-)

I think that that is a good idea, but that one should also get a
more lasting title for that. Something like we do with our presidents
here in Finland: the currently reigning president has the official
title "President of the republic" (translation mine and inofficial)
while the past presidents are referred to as simply "president".

Perhaps one could refer to the current top 16 as "FIDE Super GM" as
it is the FIDE rating list that is used, and call past FIDE Super GMs who
have fallen out of the top 16 simply Super GMs.

Harri

"PeteCasso" wrote in message
.. .

Not quite true, there is a response from FIDE in this regard, see:

http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml

As you can see, the 16 grandmasters have 2700+ ratings, the others have
lower ratings.

That`s correct but it is merely a funny coincidence affirmative the
corectness of Siegbert Tarrasch` postulate but not an aware action on FIDE
officials` side
Thus maybe it`s an answer from the heavens above :-)

Regards,

Jerzy

"Harri Haanpaa" wrote in message
...

I think that that is a good idea, but that one should also get a
more lasting title for that. Something like we do with our presidents
here in Finland: the currently reigning president has the official
title "President of the republic" (translation mine and inofficial)
while the past presidents are referred to as simply "president".

OK it`s a great honor to be a president so it`s all right.

Perhaps one could refer to the current top 16 as "FIDE Super GM" as
it is the FIDE rating list that is used, and call past FIDE Super GMs who
have fallen out of the top 16 simply Super GMs.

I am stubborn : there has been no Super GM title yet :-)
I`ve heard many arguments against temporariness of the title but it`s the
clue.
Such a title should be used solely for chess advertisement but not for
honorary distinguishment.

Regards,

Jerzy

That`s correct but it is merely a funny coincidence affirmative the
corectness of Siegbert Tarrasch` postulate but not an aware action on FIDE
officials` side
Thus maybe it`s an answer from the heavens above :-)

Don't you know that Kirsan is a reincarnation of Tarrasch?

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:00:53 +0200, "Jerzy" wrote:

I am stubborn : there has been no Super GM title yet :-)
I`ve heard many arguments against temporariness of the title but it`s the
clue.
Such a title should be used solely for chess advertisement but not for
honorary distinguishment.

You mean just like "FIDE World Champion"?

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"PeteCasso" wrote in message
.. .

Thus maybe it`s an answer from the heavens above :-)

Don't you know that Kirsan is a reincarnation of Tarrasch?


No, he is claimed to be the 69th reincarnation of Chinggis (Genghis) Khaan
:-)

Regards,

Jerzy