Taylor Kingston wrote:
On Dec 6, 4:32 am, Jam boy wrote:
He s 2400 on the base that he played and won with people that have a
2400 rating FIDE many times, and on the base that he defeats many
programs *even in blitz of about that strenght.

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?

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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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On Dec 6, 5:03 pm, Kenneth Sloan wrote:


What if he's only defeated Phil Innes?

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Then it would be for him a waste of time to
play against Kenneth Sloan.

Wlod

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!


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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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