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Originally posted by BagheriI think it's alot more than intensive practice a player needs to have the right tools:
To achieve grandmaster status ,intensive practice is required. Memorization of various openings, middle game, and endgame can be crucial. The first for starting out, the middle for deciding the game and the last for games with not much time left on the clock. It is said that the world's greatest chess player, Gary Kasparov, knows some 300,000 opening varia itz
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1) Strong nerves to stand the stress
2) The right mindset/psychology to compete in the game at that level
3) The will and heart to win
4) Good Physical Health
Some People have what it takes and other People just don't.
You still don't get it do you? How many times have you seen Short, Nakamura or Adams spamming forums driving people to some website? Just google this guys name, he posts one or two posts and hits the road to the next forum. We are not idiots. There are world class GMs on other sites who don't do this sort of thing.
Originally posted by z00tdoes short, nakamura or adams want to open up a web store to sell stuff on? it's reasonable to assume that one would need to generate traffic onto his site to have any success on that, and going around chess forums promoting your site is a low budget way to do just that. maybe it's not entirely ethical, but as long as he chips in for the community, and the promoting is kept low profile, I don't have a problem with it. although russ might, I don't know...
You still don't get it do you? [b]How many times have you seen Short, Nakamura or Adams spamming forums driving people to some website? Just google this guys name, he posts one or two posts and hits the road to the next forum. We are not idiots. There are world class GMs on other sites who don't do this sort of thing.[/b]
as to whether he's really gm bagheri or not, I don't really care enough to try to find out. at least not at this point. if you do, I suggest you try to contact gm bagheri through some more official way, ask him if he's been here, and find out. that's what I did with 'jean hebert', and the real one answered within hours to never have even heard of rhp. of course, with you spilling daily paranoid crap about people, nobody would believe you. but at least you'd know.
Originally posted by wormwoodBut Russ doing what you suggest could have authentic value. If he is at all interested having 'certified' toplevel players on RHP (and why not giving them free subscriptions).
does short, nakamura or adams want to open up a web store to sell stuff on? it's reasonable to assume that one would need to generate traffic onto his site to have any success on that, and going around chess forums promoting your site is a low budget way to do just that. maybe it's not entirely ethical, but as long as he chips in for the community, and the ...[text shortened]... daily paranoid crap about people, nobody would believe you. but at least you'd know.
Originally posted by Mephisto2it would be nice to have that possibility for titled players, and I know it's been proposed many times before. I wonder why it has never happened? it's clearly not an issue of lost revenue, as the number of those players would be quite small, and the whole visibility thing just purely positive to the site's attraction.
But Russ doing what you suggest could have authentic value. If he is at all interested having 'certified' toplevel players on RHP (and why not giving them free subscriptions).
it would also save us from this re-occurring debate...
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveWhat we need is GM Moneylov to sign up to these forums and leave the professional chess circuit for a while. The dollar sign in his eyes should convince everyone that he is the genuine article.
Oh dear - I'll get my pal Topolovskyvich onto it immediately. 😉