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7 comments:
Well done James!
Maybe the knockers of his FM title can give it a break now?
Congratulations James - it has always been obvious you are highly motivated and care deeply for the game.
Congratulations James!
:)
this way to the GM title Mr. Morris ----> :)
As I said in a previous thread, one can knock a soft FM title obtained for a very sub-FM performance, and praise an IM title for what would have been a convincing norm in a non-zonal tournament. The two are unrelated.
"very sub-FM" is perhaps a little bit harsh on James' performance when he won his FM title. His TPR was only 2110 but given that several of his opponents had no FIDE rating a case can be made that it was really more like a 2200 performance. I said at the time that it would make more sense for FIDE to award CM rather than FM to players who record sub-2300 performances otherwise meeting the Zonal FM requirements, but while James' performance then was certainly sub-FM I wouldn't say it was *very* sub-FM.
I hope James changes his name at ChessChat to IMTheRealDeal :)
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