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lovecg on July 26, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

Obligatory Dan Luu reference on how 95th percentile of anything is not that impressive https://danluu.com/p95-skill/

WJW on July 26, 2021 [–]

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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