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There are so many pretty good chess players out there obsessed with making a norm, as though it’s going to help them in some way. Here’s another newsflash….unless you are 2500 FIDE, you aren’t getting the Grandmaster title, so if you are hanging around 2400-2440 all the time, making a GM norm isn’t going to help you very much. However if you get your rating to a consistent 2500 level, and you don’t have an especially draw happy style of chess, you are going to make GM norms in your sleep. You sure won’t make them in every tournament you play, but probably one out of every 4 or 5, and then you are well on your way to becoming a Grandmaster.Do you agree? Comments?
In my U.S. Chess School camps there are a lot of students who tell me that their goal is to make IM norms as quickly as possible. I always find this ridiculous, because usually while it’s clear to me these kids have talent, they are certainly not IM level players at the moment. Meanwhile I see them play in tournaments, and go through all kinds of weird contortions to improve their chances of making IM norms, and they sometimes seem to think that the only point of playing these events is to make IM norms. The way for these kids to make norms is extremely simple. All they have to do is just get a little better at chess, show up to play in the chess tournament, play normally, and the norms will come.
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Anyone can get an IM norm. But to get a GM norm it is not enough to be lucky, you also need to play well.
Anyone can get a GM norm. But to play as a super GM it is not enough to be lucky, you also need to play well.
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