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Master norm or Grandmaster norm. Number of points needed by a player to obtain a qualification for the title. Depending on the kind of tournament, two or three norms are necessary to obtain the title. Since 2003 these norms depend on the performance rating. 2600 + GM, 2450+ IM, 2400+ WGM, 2250+ WIM.

What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research. W. Steinitz
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation. Hou Yifan
2016

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