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- The majority of today’s grandmasters started playing chess between the ages of 3 and 8. That being said, there are also adult improvers, such as Ben Finegold, who received his GM title at the age of 40.
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- How Many Hours Of Chess Study Does It Take To Be A Grandmaster?
- Assumptions
- Starting Age
- Hours Per Week
- Gain Per Year
- Ages 7-10
- Ages 11-14
- Ages 15-18
- Conclusion
- P.S. How Many Chess Games Does It Take to Become A Grandmaster?
We will have to make a few assumptions to build a prediction for how many hours it takes to reach the grandmaster title. Based on a more advanced version of the ChessGoals Rating Gain Calculator, we can make predictions for annual rating gain with a few assumptions. To help guide these assumptions, we will be following four U.S. grandmasters. I am ...
The starting age for grandmasters varies quite a bit, but almost all of them start in the single-digit ages. We are going to assume our hypothetical grandmaster starts playing chess at the age of seven. There are some FIDE Candidate Masters that are as young as nine or ten years old on the most recent rating list.
In past analyses, I've found there tends to be a burnout effect that happens at around 20 hours per week of chess study. We will assume our future grandmaster spends 20 hours per week (or less) to maximize their rating gains during younger years.
Instead of using the average rating gain, we will assume these grandmasters are between the median and the top 25th percentile of rating gain per year based on the rating calculator input factors. It seems reasonable to think that grandmasters are naturally inclined to gain more points than the average player, but we will also use the four grandmas...
We are starting our seven-year-old future grandmaster at a 700 rating. They know how to move the pieces, but that's about it. In the first year, they spend 20 hours per week, improving by 450 points. Players under age 10 who are rated below 1000 can regularly gain 300+ points per year when they are obsessed with playing and studying chess. Between ...
The rating gains become much more difficult now that our GM is already at an advanced level. After about expert level (2000), gaining 200+ points in a year becomes rare. Between ages 11-14, our GM continues to spend an average of 20 hours per week. This fits into expectations of annual rating gain and our four famous grandmasters. At age 11, our GM...
This is a critical age for scholastic players to stay focused on chess improvement. Most of the famous grandmasters had full 12-month periods of virtual rating stagnation, and gaining 50-100 points annually is considered a good year. Between ages 15-18, our GM will continue to spend 20 hours per week while working on their more difficult school stu...
The estimate for the hours spent to become a chess grandmaster is: 20 hours/week * 52 weeks/year * 11 years = 12,480 hours 12,480 hoursis the final estimate on the number of hours it takes to reach the grandmaster title for players who start under age 10. This is a huge time commitment, but the assumptions seem fairly reasonable based on all of the...
An interesting related question is, "How many chess games does one need to play to become a grandmaster?" When one considers rated and unrated chess over the board as well as online chess, it's impossible to track allgames played by future grandmasters, but here are the number of games played on Chess.com by several very talented Chess.com regulars...
Today, young kids are becoming very strong very early and some even become grandmasters at the age of twelve and thirteen. They take to chess like a fledgling bird learning to fly. But can you start a serious chess career at the ripe old age of seventeen?
As of August 2023, I'm hovering between 1250-1350 elo at 15 years old on Chess.com. I have no idea if that's good or not, but I hear a lot of these YouTubers (Levy, Hikaru, etc) saying that if you're not x amount of elo before x years old, you won't become a Grandmaster. I just want to hear your guy's thoughts on this and if it's true or not.
- Start young. Learning the game of chess at an early age has many advantages. Children who are exposed to languages, music, and other disciplines at an early age can experience an easier time becoming fluent.
- Work hard. Even the most talented players that become grandmasters, such as the 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov, work hard and make sacrifices to achieve their goal.
- Play tournaments. A chess player has to lose thousands of games, study those losses, learn from those losses, and come out a stronger player. Playing in tournaments gives you the opportunity to put your new knowledge to the test, learn about the psychology of competition, practice time management, and gain the experience necessary to become a strong player.
- Score three norms. To score the necessary three norms on the way to becoming a grandmaster a chess player has to play in norm tournaments. Norm tournaments meet the criteria of having at least three grandmasters from different countries, nine rounds, and a time control that is at least 120 minutes.
I don't have any data on when grandmasters start playing, but anecdotally a vast majority started at a very young age, so an average of 8-10 years old is probably a good estimate. So the average time it takes to become a grandmaster is around 20 years, if you started when you were young (which should be the easiest).
The majority of today’s grandmasters started playing chess between the ages of 3 and 8. That being said, there are also adult improvers, such as Ben Finegold, who received his GM title at the age of 40.
