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The grandmaster (GM) title is the highest title awarded by FIDE. It is obtained by both acquiring a 2500 Elo rating, and achieving three "grandmaster norms," tournament performances of a sufficiently high standard.
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How many steps can a grandmaster foresee?
If you have a forced line, i.e. a position where there are only few candidate moves at every step, a grandmaster can calculate many moves. … In this case a grandmaster would typically only calculate a couple of moves deep (if at all) in order to check that he is not blundering anything to a tactic. …
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Why do miniature games happen at the grandmaster level?
Grandmaster are able to calculate many moves ahead, but this is not something they do at each and every move. …
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How does opening preparation work at GM level?
Not a GM myself, but my understanding is that there is more than one way.
First of all any decent GM would have notes (nowadays on computer) with all the opening lines they play. These notes might in …
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Which chess website has the strongest players?
As of 2020 I believe by far the most popular sites to play online chess are lichess, chess.com and chess24.
I am not aware of any publicly available statistics on the metrics you suggest. From what I …
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How many positions does a GM analyze before making a move?
Of course this depends on the position at hand, but generally speaking...
I am not a GM, but 100 positions (not moves) seems highly exaggerated, though this might depend on your definition of "positi …
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Why is there a craze of becoming chess grandmaster?
I would question that there is a craze of becoming a GM (or other titled player).
Do you have any proof of this claim?
True there are lots of people playing online, but in general people are doing …
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