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The path to earning a FIDE title is arduous. Beyond the minimum FIDE rating requirement — 2400 for IM, 2500 for GM — players have to earn three pesky things called “norms” to qualify for the title. And earning these norms is not as easy as simply playing good chess or scoring good results. These norms have numerous additional requirements. Among other things, they must come from events with at least nine classical game against players of a certain average rating from at least three different federations.

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