24 Jan '08 09:28>
Are you aware of anyone who became a master at some old age? Is it possible?
Any stories, roumors about it ?
all the masters that I know
either did it very very early-in their teens and after that their rating somehow decreased,
either they were somehow already good in their 20s(as they started chess a bit later-in their 20s)-candidate master range- and played a lot and improved little by little in the next 10-20 years and somehow luckily they got the master title (I know much fewer examples of this second type of masters)
I am not aware of anyone who started chess late(let's say 35+) from the scratch and got the master title...
Any stories, roumors about it ?
all the masters that I know
either did it very very early-in their teens and after that their rating somehow decreased,
either they were somehow already good in their 20s(as they started chess a bit later-in their 20s)-candidate master range- and played a lot and improved little by little in the next 10-20 years and somehow luckily they got the master title (I know much fewer examples of this second type of masters)
I am not aware of anyone who started chess late(let's say 35+) from the scratch and got the master title...