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to Elisabeth Pähtz, first German woman to be GM. (She was WGM at age 16.)

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A female reincarnation of Lasker? Tarrasch? Anderssen? 😳

Congrats!!

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Pähtz - Pogonina, Riga 2021


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Great news.

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@moonbus
Don't you need a rating of 2500 minimum to be called GM after all the wins are tabulated?
Her rating is now 2485, ANYONE but Magnus would LOVE a rating that high but I wonder if she WAS over 2500 briefly and lost some game to go down a bit?

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@sonhouse said
@moonbus
Don't you need a rating of 2500 minimum to be called GM after all the wins are tabulated?
Her rating is now 2485, ANYONE but Magnus would LOVE a rating that high but I wonder if she WAS over 2500 briefly and lost some game to go down a bit?
I believe you're right about the criterion of having been rated at least 2500. According to https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4641833/chart, her FIDE rating was most recently over 2499 in October 2018.

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@sonhouse said
@moonbus
Don't you need a rating of 2500 minimum to be called GM after all the wins are tabulated?
Her rating is now 2485, ANYONE but Magnus would LOVE a rating that high but I wonder if she WAS over 2500 briefly and lost some game to go down a bit?
I am not sure about ratings. What pushed her into the GM bracket just recently was having placed 2d in a major tournament, defeating a GM to do so, and not for the first time. These are supplementary criteria to whatever the ratings criterion may be.