@Sarg0n said in #8:
> I know players who started in their youth time and did everything (really everything) and weren’t able to reach 2000.
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> In the last decades no adult starter has become GM. True, there are those stories where Chigorin did it in the dinosaurs era. Those were the days when most players hardly couldn’t tell a Bishop from a Knight.
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> If it helps your ego than yes, you can do it. Realistically, hardly any adult starter will become FM or IM.
Jonathon Hawkins from England started playing properly when he was 18. I don't know if he counts as adult starter he was an average club player when he was 18 about 1700/1800 FIDE, and made GM basically from scratch.
> I know players who started in their youth time and did everything (really everything) and weren’t able to reach 2000.
>
> In the last decades no adult starter has become GM. True, there are those stories where Chigorin did it in the dinosaurs era. Those were the days when most players hardly couldn’t tell a Bishop from a Knight.
>
> If it helps your ego than yes, you can do it. Realistically, hardly any adult starter will become FM or IM.
Jonathon Hawkins from England started playing properly when he was 18. I don't know if he counts as adult starter he was an average club player when he was 18 about 1700/1800 FIDE, and made GM basically from scratch.