Tag: grandmaster-title
How the Word "Grandmaster" Was Born
The most famous origin story in chess titling has a real problem: the earliest source for it dates to 1940, twenty-six years after it supposedly happened.
How the Grandmaster Title Became Official, 1950
Thirty-six years after the informal legend, FIDE finally made "Grandmaster" an actual title, and had to decide who among chess history's best had earned it retroactively.
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