Sep 17, 2025
To:Japanese🌹Rose
If you're on Discord, there is a Chess in the Park app we can play in Honey cafe. Though in terms of becoming a GM, it's not as simple as getting 2500. It'll be explained later in the story, but the titled system is essentially the same as the real-life one, with FIDE master being replaced with WWCF master as FIDE doesn't exist in the story with the WWCF being it's equivalent. Candidate master can be reached simply by achieving a rating of 2200. FIDE master, WWCF master in this universe, is reached by achieving a rating of 2300. However, when you get to international master, you not only need to achieve a rating of 2400, but also secure three norms. Norms are considered tournament performance ratings and usually require you to both perform at a certain level and face a minimum number of players with the title you are seeking. For example, to get a norm, you'd need to have a 5/7 tournament performance and face a total of 3 international masters. It's similar with grandmaster as not only do you need to get a rating of 2500, you also need to get three norms, which is easier said than done as you need a performance rating of 2600 with at least 33% of the opponents being grandmasters, 50% holding a FIDE title higher than candidate master, the average opponent rating being at least 2380, and at that the opponents must come from at least three different federations, which can include the players own. There are added stipulations that a maximum of 66% can come from a single federation with it being 60% from the player's own federation. One of the three norms must also be earned at a Swiss tournament with at least 40 participants of an average rating of 2000. There are also women-exclusive titles such as women's candidate master which is earned simply by reaching 2000, women's FIDE master, women's WWCF master in this universe, which requires you to reach 2100, women's international master, which requires a rating of 2200 and three norms, and finally women's grandmaster which requires a rating of 2300 and three norms. International master and grandmaster are both higher titles than grandmaster, which usually results in female players ditching the WGM title once they reach IM, as it's the more prestigious title. There are also ways to get the GM title without fulfilling the 3 norms and rating requirement. So long as the player has achieved a peak rating of 2300 or above at any point in their career, they can be awarded the GM title outright by reaching the final 16 in the FIDE chess world cup, winning the women's chess world cup, winning the world junior chess championship, winning the world senior chess championship, or by winning a continental chess championship. One famous example of the conditions being waved was with 8th World Chess Champion, Mikhail Tal, who was given his GM title after winning the 1957 USSR Chess Championship despite not having played enough games to get the title at the time. My apologies for the long reply, but I hope you enjoyed learning more about chess.
