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Any chess player ranked below master level or who does not live by chess. For FIDE or ECU it is a player with a rating below 2200 ELO. The first World Amateur Championship was organized in 1924 but the competition was discontinued in 1928 only to be revived after 68 years by Stewart Reuben. Since then a World Amateur Championship and a European Amateur Championship are yearly organized.

In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation. Teymur Rajabov
2017
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke. Silvio Danailov
2013
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016

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