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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Chess ratings and shoelaces
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 12:18:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 12:18:25 1985
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["Oboy!  Now's my chance! ... What'll I say to him?"]

>               Between 2200 and 2400, you are called a chess master.  But,
> you are not even close to being alowed to tie the shoe laces of the likes
> of Bobby Fischer, Spassky, Kasp[o]_a_rov, etc.  Between 2400 and 2600 (maybe
> 2500), you are a grand master.  It is now that you go hunting for big game.
> After 2600, you are an international grand master.

In the USCF rating system, 2200-2399 is master, 2400- is senior master.
The title of Grandmaster is awarded only by the International Chess
Federation; it does _not_ depend on one's Elo (i.e., international) or
USCF rating.  The only kind of grandmaster is an international grandmaster.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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