I found these pages and seen in some threads people ask about ratings so i'll share the links with you.
http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=B0101
i also found this of interest
http://www.fredwehner.de/schach/fide.html
what I want to know is how comes it's easier for a woman to become a WGM?. It's sexest and is like saying woman have no brians.. which i happen to agree with but thats not he point!!! this is the 21st century
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I think that I read somewhere that women, as a group, have historically had trouble being "successful" enough (however that's defined at the time) to become Grandmasters of chess. So FIDE simply lowered the standard for women players, thereby allowing them to attain "Grandmaster" titles, without having to be as good as men.
I think that Yasser Seirawan explained this in his "Play Winning Chess" book, but I could be wrong about the source.
Originally posted by CenterNutI believe there are more women than men who have a Brian. 😛 Anyway, I agree that the system is sexist. The rules should be the same for men and women. Okay, that would mean that there would be fewer women with a chess title. So what?
what I want to know is how comes it's easier for a woman to become a WGM?. It's sexest and is like saying woman have no brians.. which i happen to agree with but thats not he point!!! this is the 21st century
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The following is from chessgames.com (games of Zsuzsa (Susan) Polgar)...
found at http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15162
Susan (Zsuzsa) Polgar was born in 1969...
<quote> By 1984 she became the top-rated woman chess player in the world. Later that year, FIDE, in a contraversial decision, granted 100 rating points to every female player except Zsuzsa.
In 1991, Susan became the first woman player to ever receive the men's grandmaster title, and later that year, so did Judit Polgar.
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