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From: vis@hector.UUCP (Tom Courtney)
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Subject: Re: Chess grading system
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 11:59:30 EST
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Actually, it is not so simple. People rated above 2400 by the USCF are "senior
masters". The way you become an international master/grandmaster, etc. is to
play in some number of tournaments which have a minimum strength level, and do
well (called "achieving a grandmaster norm"). As you can imagine, this is often
hard to do, simce many of these tournaments are by invitation only (how do you 
think they keep the strength up?), and getting invited is no mean feat.