• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    She’s a great chess player but she’s never been a World Champion. There’s no need to embelish her story. She’s currently training to become a surgeon at University of Missouri School of Medicine.

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        9 days ago

        Grandmaster just means you have reached a certain elo and have completed certain requirements (win a number of games, against certain opponents etc), and won a certain number of competitions. There are around 2000 current grandmasters.

        World champion is much much more selective, meaning literally winning the world championship.

        Don’t get me wrong, grandmaster is incredibly prestigious, but is much more “common” than world champion.

        (International Master is the rank below grandmaster).

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        For clarification, the Women’s Grandmaster and International titles are conferred after a certain level of achievement overall in one’s career. There is no limit to the number of people who can have those titles. I feel like if you use a phrase like “world title holder” there’s an implication that such a world title is like “champion of whatever” and is only held by one person at a time (like a “World Champion(ship title)”).