THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CHESS

or IGM is employed) is awarded to earth-class chess masters. Aside from Earth Winner, Grandmaster is the very best title a chess player can attain. Just before FIDE will confer the title on the player, the player will need to have an Elo rating of not less than 2500 at 1 time and a few results of a prescribed normal (termed norms) in tournaments in