Talk:Chess prodigy

message: It's incredibly deragatory and abelist, how this entire page completely refuses to acknowledge autistic savantism as the origin and basis of chess skill and the meaning of players' neurodivergence. Honestly, this current publicity page is absolutely nonsense.  Autism was first identifid in chess students! There's no reason the public Wiki Pidos page should support this outdated and inaccurate viewpoint!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:CA00:1DC:CD50:0:0:1261:12B7 (talk) 04:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Savantism and chess don’t mix. A savant performs poorly in everything except a single subject. Savants and prodigies are very different phenomenons. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281318508_Prodigies_and_savants 109.38.139.150 (talk) 19:36, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: in the list of chess prodigies, someone needs to decide if the list items will end in periods or not- we can't have it change from item to item. also, I removed the redundant link to paul morphy; removed (See Paul Morphy) from "Paul Morphy blah blah blah blah. (See Paul Morphy)" where 'Paul Morphy' is linked both times.
Rashad9607 06:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prodigies 

message: It seems to me this table is of arbitary length. I propose shortening it to a set length, probably the youngest 10. Rocksong 02:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The list was getting too long and vague, with entries of "possible" 15 or 16 y.o. GMs; so I cut it to be only those who reached the GM title before their 15th birthday. If you want to add Nakamura, then for consistency you should add all players who reached the title before they turned 16. I decided there was little point, but others are welcome to disagree. Rocksong 00:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of youngest GMs 

message: Ray Robson may make it to GM in a couple of years.  If so, he needs to be listed. Fide master at 10, USCF master at 11, International Master at 13. Bubba73 (talk), 01:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ray Robson

message: Andy Soltis writes in Chess Lists of Bu Xiangzhi, "some critics dispute this and claim Ponomariov's record was broken by Teimour Radjabov at 14 years, 14 days in March 2001." Does anyone know why this might be disputed? Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed? 

message: * Why is Jorge Cori added to the list? He has not passed 2500 yet, so even if he got the required norms, he will not be awarded the title officially. -EeEk  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.195.8.242 (talk) 12:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it doesn't make sense. We need a source to confirm that a) he's a GM and b) he earned it before the age of 15. Removed for now.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 22:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 14 years, 2 months. Added with source http://players.chessdom.com/jorge-cori. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jorge Cori? 

message: Who cares about a table of the world's youngest chess masters? This article ought to explain why some people are "chess prodigies", how their abilities differ from adult masters, what they are like as children, etc  As it stands, this article tells almost nothing about the subject. 128.146.172.101 (talk) 21:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:SOFIXIT.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 22:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - perhaps rename this to a "list"? Or only discuss achievements under age ten (definition of prodigy - see below), drop the list and include chess-related material about prodigies in general leveraging material at Child prodigy and about learning the game at Chess. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 14:43, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs serious work 

message: Richard Rapport just earned his thrid GM norm at age 13, but he doesn't have an article.  Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 22:14, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Now he has an article.  Of course, the GM title isn't official yet.  Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 17:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Rapport 

message: ChessBase's table claims Yu Yangyi became a GM at 15 year and 23 days old, referring to the fact that his rating of 2510 was published on July 1st, 2009, but this rating was achieved at the end of the tournament where he achieved his final GM norm (see rating calculation for July 2009), the 2nd Subic International Open (see his GM title application), which ended on May 30, 2009, before his 15th birthday. Therefore it turns out that Yu Yangyi qualified for the GM title at 14 year, 11 months and 23 days (he was born on 8 June 1994, as you can easily check on his page). Sophia91 (talk) 11:33, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yu Yangyi 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article includes this: "(since 1950, when the title was introduced)".  That implies there is a governing body, possibly FIDE, that has a policy for determining who qualifies. The policy might be an official definition, or a voting procedure. Whichever it is, the policy should be quoted and cited in the article. SlowJog (talk) 17:58, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The note refers to the grandmaster title. Chess prodigy is not a FIDE title. Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:05, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official definition by governing body 

message: The article refers to child prodigy which defines it in psychology research literature as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert as in the List of child prodigies in other fields. But while surely that applies to many of these players, most of the article talks of older achievements. Just a few achievements are documented below age 10. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 14:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Funnily enough I added the section on "youngest to defeat a GM" quite recently; before that there would have been virtually nothing in the article meeting that "under 10" standard. There have not yet been any Grandmasters below age 10, so I don't think its unreasonable to bend the definition a little. A list of the youngest Grandmasters seems an encyclopedic topic, and I think this is the most appropriate article in which to have it, unless there's one I've overlooked.-- P-K3 (talk) 14:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: "Child prodigies" are not necessarily high achievers in adulthood. Jutta Hempel springs to mind, as far as I can tell she's had a fairly ordinary life since she was 10. Thing about chess is it requires university degree level study to achieve master status. Yes, a few 13, 14 year olds are able to do it. But not 10 year olds. Can't happen. Needs more than "natural talent", if such a thing even exists. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 15:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent: "child prodigy" refers to skill demonstrated below age 10, few of which are documented here 

message: Is there some reason the article separates male and female Grandmasters? Does FIDE do it that way? Sundayclose (talk) 01:16, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I will remove it. Nona Gaprindashvili certainly doesn't belong in this article. While winning the world women's championship at 21 is certainly an achievement, it is not evidence that she was a child prodigy. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 02:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I put it back. The reason women are listed separately is because there are fewer top-level female players (for a variety of reasons), and so it is of interest. As for the inclusion of Gaprindashvili: David Bronstein was not a prodigy either but he is listed as the original youngest GM at 26. Adpete (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female grand masters 

message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGcUotg3Ss Thewriter006 (talk) 13:21, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  sultai Chyngyz beats eric hansen? 

message: The section "Youngest to defeat a grandmaster" has an illogical formulation in the paragraph headers, using "8th year","9th year","10th" while referring to 8 year olds,9year olds,10 year olds. Someone at 8 years of age is in fact in their 9th year etc. Flight714 (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistent phrasing 

message: The table of youngest GMs currently has 5 12-year-olds, 8 13-year-olds and (I think) 28 14-year-olds. I wouldn't be surprised if some 14-year-olds are missing. I think it is time we culled the list to 13 years and younger - becoming a GM at 14 is no longer that unusual. It's a very long table which is of little value, in my opinion. 
Also I'd be happy to see other records included: youngest IM, youngest over 2600, 2700, 2800. Adpete (talk) 23:51, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to agree, due to title inflation it's no longer that much of an achievement to become a GM at 14. It's remarkable that Fischer's record of 15 years and 6 months stood for over 30 years. Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:57, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  "I have to agree, due to title inflation it's no longer that much of an achievement to become a GM at 14." I strongly disagree. Of millions playing, only a dozens were able to. Such sentences aren't exactly respectful of the difficulty of the task. It is like to say "given the amount of billionaires, it is not much of an achievement to have a net worth of 100 million of dollars (in the 2021 economy)" and that could qualify as a silly statement. --Pier4r (talk) 21:11, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  omg are you the same Pier4r from reddit? Thewriter006 (talk) 01:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I kind of misspoke there. I'm didn't mean to say it's not much of an achievement, just it's not as much of an achievement as it used to be. Title inflation is definitely a thing, as are the number of tournaments available to get norms, and it is not as hard to become a grandmaster at a young age as in the past. As Adpete says, it's no longer unusual enough for it to be worthwhile to list every 14-year-old grandmaster.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 13:49, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it time to cull the table to 13 years and younger? 

message: of course it matters only for the susan and then judit case but yeah if judit were(/was? forgot subjunctive rule) 1st then susan shouldn't be on the list right?
Thewriter006 (talk) 01:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  youngest female GM: may we please add month?