What is your source for 5 years old being the golden number? As far as I know, many top players started playing later than that.
Not necessarily. But it helps in the shark tank.
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Not really, you could start as an adult.
That's like saying you have to start playing basketball as a kid to wind up in the NBA.
Or you need to grow up with martial arts to win the UFC.
No, not really. you just need to be competent to be a contender, and then you need to win.
Most people at any given activity suck, and you can go from uninitiated, to initiated just by being better then them.
At which point competition , in whatever field is in question, and striving there will do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
It's not the child player who becomes a GM or world champion or wherever you want to put the bar. It's their adult self. The adult is not the same person they were as a child.
That's like saying you have to start playing basketball as a kid to wind up in the NBA.
Or you need to grow up with martial arts to win the UFC.
No, not really. you just need to be competent to be a contender, and then you need to win.
Most people at any given activity suck, and you can go from uninitiated, to initiated just by being better then them.
At which point competition , in whatever field is in question, and striving there will do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
It's not the child player who becomes a GM or world champion or wherever you want to put the bar. It's their adult self. The adult is not the same person they were as a child.
Whilst most famous GMs like Naroditsky, Magnus and Anand did start playing chess around 5-6 years old all you need to do is love chess and devote time to it and you'll be able to get up their (unless your like me that took 30 seconds to complete a forum validation puzzle uh-oh)
Seirawan started at 12
Biggest issue is playing enough qualifying games and build elo. Even starteing at 14 I think you can make GM but you will have a shorter peak.
Biggest issue is playing enough qualifying games and build elo. Even starteing at 14 I think you can make GM but you will have a shorter peak.
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.
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.
I started at 5am at 800, by 8am I was a GM.
I followed all the advice here on the forum:- I read loads, worked really really hard, did thousands of puzzles and played many many many games.
It’s a hard road, but you too can do it if you stick to the strategy outlined above.
I followed all the advice here on the forum:- I read loads, worked really really hard, did thousands of puzzles and played many many many games.
It’s a hard road, but you too can do it if you stick to the strategy outlined above.
@Cyncko-3000 said in #1:
> Hey everyone! Why is 5 the golden number? Is even a few years ahead bad?
well to be fair in my opinion 9-10 years old is the best place to start bc your not extremely stupid (what can you expect from a 5 year old lets be real) and also in my experience (i started chess really early) the board game just gets really boring if you start way too early. but it is true that starting chess in your youth gives a huge advantage towards aiming to get a title, for example its pretty much impossible for a 30 year old who just started chess to get GM.
> Hey everyone! Why is 5 the golden number? Is even a few years ahead bad?
well to be fair in my opinion 9-10 years old is the best place to start bc your not extremely stupid (what can you expect from a 5 year old lets be real) and also in my experience (i started chess really early) the board game just gets really boring if you start way too early. but it is true that starting chess in your youth gives a huge advantage towards aiming to get a title, for example its pretty much impossible for a 30 year old who just started chess to get GM.
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