we asked chess players if anyone can become a grandmaster 

Very well said!

Good thing too. I'm just really getting serious in the last year and am enjoying it. I'm 700 and would like to make 1500 in the next several years. I think 1200 is more likely

​​@@Factchecker9111 you can totally do it! I was 700 a year ago and now I am almost at 1700! I just watched some educational content from gothamchess and started watching Naroditsky too at like 1200, did puzzled almost every day, studied one opening for white and two for black (one for e4 and one for d4) and improved really fast like that :D

@@Factchecker9111 Listen mr william if the King 👑Hans niemann says you can do it! there is no doubt about it! 💯

​ wow this is really inspiring... Can you drop the link to any material you used?

Chess was nowhere near as popular as it is now. Years ago, it was multiple times less known abd all GMs are from rhat time because it takes years to become a GM, soon we'll have an explosion of prodigies because of the 2020 boom of chess

​@@volty3454 that soon may come 20 years later when we are olf as f***

@@rahuldhakal2844 maybe for an explosion of GMs but prodigies show in just a couple years

Sample size fallacy. How many play and study for years to even give themselves a chance to be one? Your comment only makes sense if everyone tried, and then there were 2000. As it stands, only a small number even play seriously.

@@nossenkanter The question in the video was "if anyone can come a grandmaster. There are 8 billion anyone's in the world and only 1700 plus GM's. Doesn't matter how many tried or play. That wasn't the question.

Who

Yes

Frank is already a Gm

​@@Jonathan-mr8pz man lives on Mars

@@DanfoxGD who is it

Gotta start now tho get on it already

@@Atataititrebuisateuiti how to train tho? Just learn gambits and read books?

@@Absolute-. play games, analyse them, watch better players play, try joining your local chess club (this one is the best option)

@@Atataititrebuisateuiti oh okay I guess I need to watch more games then, thanks bro

@@gmmilos alright man I will get started thanks for the advice👍😁

how long did it take you to get 2000?

​@@coffeman7900he said "pandemic". So like 2 years? Just my guess.

Giving me hopes

Wow. That's amazing

Guys he said "LiChess"

there's a similar story about another player who plays good chess.. and when he was a kid, his dream was to be a grandmaster, and his coach told him "you'll never become a grandmaster" ever since that day he lost motivation to study.. he takes less lessons than usual.. but even to this day he still plays chess

Damn…I hope you started playing again, not to become a gm but just for the enjoyment of chess

Whats your rating rn?

600 ​@@eljefedagoat

great job on proving him right

I don't know maybe he meant start playing chess not being gm level good at it.

@@RadikatMLG I wouldnt say impossible, there are always people who make "impossible" things, possible. The chance is just very low.

​@@andreasr979those grandmasters made it a profession. Their life is only chess. Only few can dedicate life to chess if they already have structured everything in life away from chess

"Yeah it's hard but not impossible"

You know that's not true, but if you believe in it then dig your own grave

*when

He still could reach GM but his mental blocks are 🔒🔒

Isn't he a gm now

​@@joelmiller3218no lol

@@themaro1024 Yeah I was bamboozled by his april fool's video. Damn it Levy

Let Levy milk all the views till the chess craze lasts and then he'll move on to classical chess.

She's just like me, I know how to move every piece and how to capture. I am 18 :)

@@timepass4783 yeah I just started learning legit openings and stuff a few months ago and I'm 16 😂

​@@kingsquashI also strated at 16 but I'll work hard now newly turning 17 IA.

Ikr

Yeah when he said 15 a fire was lit underneath me

Yeah I started when i was 11 and jn 1 year i am already almost 1200

@@itamarowak Thats honestly super impressive, good luck on your further chess journey

@@bored_chimpanzee nah

Hey, if you want it, you go get it.

Lol. Learning a language is something any human can do. Becoming a GM is something almost no human can do. Big difference

@@toziassmitt What I mean is that there's an element of starting young when it comes to the acquisition of both skills. If you want to become really good at chess or a language, it's important to start young. As for chess vs. language, huge sample size discrepancy. In chess, not many people stick with it, are serious, and actually put in the required training. A guy like Gotham Chess could've been a GM, he just didn't put in the work.

​@@tenningaleel prize in phisycs is more challenging, and people still do it after 30+

@@xahst yeah, so you’ve proved my point lol. Realistically if you’re over 30, it ain’t happening. More to the point, why would you even want it to happen? The amount of effort needed is far beyond the returns. Achieving GM is cool but the top guys spend their life doing it, basically

Phisher said that chess is just memorization. To become a master you just need a couple more hundreds. Totally doable

@@Kairat_Tech A couple of more hundreds? You need a FIDE rating of 2,500 to be a grandmaster

​@@Kairat_Techit's just memorization lol. Fischer said that when he was crazy

​@@blacksocrates5071i think hes referring to kaster titles like candidate master and stuff like that

Why lie in a RU-vid comment section? So dumb lmao

How many years past since you started ?

I think we are seeing a revolution in chess as now it can be played and studied much more regularly now that it is online. I think we will see many new IM's and even GM's who are older than they have been in the past

They’re answering honestly. You want them to lie to you, in order to make you feel better?

​@@toziassmitt someone might feel inspired and actually put in the effort and outdo theirself you just never know

@@vincense555 I mean, it’s not true though lol

time will tell fs@@toziassmitt

lol good luck

Oh yeah? Well I was conceived ON a chessboard.

@@christopherwellman2364 Oh yeah? Well I was born a chessboard.

Savage 😂😂

You got so much time... stop it.

5 hours a day, over one year, is around 2,000 hours. Let’s agree that from 5-18 you usually have around 5 hours free per day to practice- that’s 26,000 hours of practice that someone who started at 5 years old will have, over, someone who started at 18. For the 18 year old to catch up, even if they study chess for 8 hours a day (!), and literally do nothing else with their life but study chess… would take 8 and a half years of studying chess non stop every day. That’s just to catch up with the kid who is now 18- now think, that child prodigy 18 year old isn’t even a GM yet (likely) and it will take him years to reach GM. Are you getting now a sense of how important it is to study as a child? Those free hours, those long days of no work, no rent, no stress, just free time… they’re invaluable. All this is without even mentioning the fact that when you’re younger you pickup things faster and hold onto them easier as they form foundations in your mind- it’s much easier for a 12 year old to learn something than a 32 year old

first, people don't believe how high level a person can achieve, next they can't comprehend how much work it takes.

well its not much about what you think, its known empirically that you have more brain plasticity young. Its not mainly about time.

What happened till now bro

How's the journey going

Any GM would agree that you have to start in childhood to reach GM. Beyond those in this video, Magnus, hikaru and Kasparov have all talked about this before

You got this, easily I am sure. With consistent play. I was prob 800 when I started taking it seriously 4 years ago, now I am roughly 1700. Good luck to you!

Where have u reached

@@tirthlakhani9515 1230 now

@@whybothertry8642how old are u now ?

@@marisacillahi1537 I'm still 20 aha, 1320 now

You’ll never be as good as the botez sisters lol. Just accept that fact and move on, it’s life

That's called being real. You can't expect to be one of the best in the world at something if you haven't started at a young age or if you aren't a phenom You'll never be a boxing world champ if you were 25 the first time you put gloves on

​@chocobarre3178 sure it's real but why should you have to believe it if it will hold you back. If its reality then so be it but let us make the best move on the chess board in a bad position

I don’t think a GM currently exists who started playing after 30 lol

@@toziassmitt everything is possible my friend!

@@danielkolasinski2626 so you’ll be the first ever GM in history who started learning chess after 30? ….lol.

@@toziassmitt I don't think I will get to half of GM tbh 🤣 But considering how popular chess became over the last few years I think it is very possible that this will happen to someone.

@@danielkolasinski2626 it won’t

8 is a little early I think, there are too many exceptions, like Boris Alterman, grandmaster who started at age 19. I think 15 is probably pretty much on point in most cases, if the person really wants to learn, is enthusiastic and not completely untalented.

Boris Alterman started playing age 7, was IM at 21, and GM at 22.

@@markpodlesak7204 Youre right, lol, dont know where I got that information from, but I still stand with my opinion

@@bored_chimpanzee mmm I wonder how many persons have learnt the moves of chess at 15 or after and went on to reach Grandmaster level in say the last 20 years?

@@markpodlesak7204 Firstly, why so aggressive? All I did was say that I dont think its impossible, to become a really good player, even if you start later in life. Answering to your question, in the last 20 years, none, but if you go back a little bit there are certainly many great players who started in their young to late teens, like Ye Jiangchuan or Mikhail Botvinnik. Ive never said that im 100% sure, but if a person is talented and under the right circumstances, im pretty sure its possible to become a IM or even GM, why wouldnt it? However, thats just my opinion, so yeah, do with this whatever you want lol

yeah but when did they start playing

Yes, chess at that level gets more boring as it becomes more strategic and opening theory based and less tactical

GM Finegold

@@tikilanichols8023 Thanks. Looks like Ben was about 40 when he became a GM.

Then please show us sir

You won’t, but I hope you enjoy the journey of trying brother

You can bro

Exactly! A kid understands nothing about anything most of the time. Esp without a tutor/reading books. These days you have so many resources. :O

​@@sycariummoonshine7134no one in the World have become grandmaster After start playing AT 15 maximum

@@sanssucreajoute6554 That's causation Not necessarily correlation. People who are naturally talented at chess get scouted at a young age. People who are talented but never touch chess in their lives are not. Wasn't Morphy basically a non player / casual before he finished law school? I think the story goes he learned chess in a few months. edit. I guess he was a child prodigy, just didn't play much?