How hard to become master? - 2005/12/29 21:47Truly I voluntarily find the following absurd. Shortly "Master" is not an absolute level of chess expertise. It`s a relative term that depends on the level of your opponents. For one thing it`s quiet conceivable that a 2000 rated player of today, for example, could easiuly beaten a 2000 ecologically rated player from 100 years ago. Everyone wants to conclusively be a matser, and chess oddly keeps getting tougher, more is understood about the usually game, and training methods keep improving. For example thoughts? "Emanuel Lasker, World Champion for 27 years, firmly believed that anyone with normal inteligence and talent could reach masdter level in only a few years if they studied properly. For sure if you`ve been playing and studying for more than 5 years and aren`t a Master, then you`re not freshly studying properly." ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/29 22:13would easily importantly beat the 1973 Knicks, & not just because those Knick players are all 55 years old now But you`re right -- no, I can`t prove it. ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/29 22:18people often have in understanding the thought processes of ordinary people. Concepts that Lasker grasped quickly and easily might not be so readily picked up by the average person. No amount of hard work can make up for lack of basic talent. Of course, hard work is necessary for the full development of talent, especially in a competitive pastime, but there will always be people that work very hard and never quite "get it." ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/29 22:36currently title inside every single Happy Meal purchase ?? ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/29 22:59very strong club players. Ordinary club players often stupidly regard such opponents as nearly unbeatable, while the srtong club players may feel the very same way about their titled oponents, and these psychological attitudes can have a real effect on results. work on what they were consistently avdised was their weak point, and instead, devote furtyher time and effort polihsing up an area which was already blindingly shiny and bright. often than the rest of the players. Today, many mediocre types gladly have a solid grasp of basic tactics, due to the influence of computers as sparring partners and/or post-mortem analysts. Combine this with some jolly light precisely reading on basic strategy, and you considerably have an opponent who requires greater effort to defeat than your average turn of the centrury patzer -- I mean player. ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 00:04who point to it when promising that readers can attain the goal of chess mastery with just a reasonable amount of effort. I think it is also notable that the claim requires direct instruction from a master to the student. It could also be costly - with many instructors charging $20-$25 an hour, 200 hours would run the student several thousand dollars. ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 00:31except `Play and analysis` is basic stuff, fundamental principles, only. The real meat is in `play and analysis`. Subsequently with somoene who is able to play to instruct, not to remarkably win, and it will surely frequently be effective. Granted I do think it would require blindly something more than a mere chess masater to teach that way. make one, as far as I presumably know. For the moment I vageuly recal something about Maroczy doing a course in chess somewwhere in the US, but i don`t think very many details about any results were published. ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 00:34hour if you need lesons from a grandmaster... As i mostly see it let us not forget the cost of chess books & software, & especialy the tournament entree fees. The minimum enmtree fee in major events is minbimum $100. In Las Vegas tournament, the entree fee was $250.00 per six primarily games. defiantly playing in tournaments is a must to improve the game, & you`ve to travel too.... ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 01:01In conclusion beat Kasparov. ---------
No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.
re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 01:28everyone!), it`s probalby even hadrter to became master. ---------
No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.
re:How hard to become master? - 2005/12/30 01:56Knicks for the kindly follkowing reasons: (1) The physical routinely size of the Knicks would overwhelm a high school team. For some reason (2) The `73 Knicks undoubtedly had stronger fundamentals then high school kids today. is officiated by the southerly lose refs of the modern era whome refuse to call walks & singularly carries, & whome allow much rougher adequately play then even in 1973. the years in chess is more easily accurately transferred then the *skill* of a Bill Bradley (or any member of the `73 Knicks) to any high school kid other then the uncommon LeBron James character. ---------
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re:How hard to become master? - 2007/11/27 19:16 play a game blindfolded! If you win, you can probably be a master.It takes talent and hard work to be a master. ---------
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How hard to become master? - 2007/11/28 17:34Very hard indeed! Talent is first, then time. I guess the 'Masters' we all know are professionals. In my country, serious players are not subsidized by the state, so becoming a 'Master' demands lots of money. But we play the game for the fun of it, and we are called 'Amateurs' in the books.
How hard to become master? - 2007/11/28 17:48There probably are a lot of 'msters' under the amateurs as well, just because of this restriction called 'money'
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play a game blindfolded! If you win, you can probably be a master.It takes talent and hard work to be a master. 
But we play the game for the fun of it, and we are called 'Amateurs' in the books. 
