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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by lovecg on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:05PM (#27961148)
Obligatory Dan Luu reference on how 95th percentile of anything is not that impressive https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by WJW on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:29PM (#27962308)
The article mentions that chess GM level is probably more like 99.9th percentile. At that level you need to be both very talented and practice very hard.
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