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9 September 2023

9:00 AM

9 September 2023

9:00 AM

‘How do you become a grandmaster?’

   ‘You must climb the mountain, and defeat the opponent at the top.’

Alas, the answer is not nearly so succinct, and when I get asked the question, I remind myself to spare the finer details. The gist is that you must outperform an ‘average’ grandmaster over the course of an event of around ten classical games.

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