NM is Not Master, thoughts?

I shall refer to all 7th rank pawns now as CM pawns. @savageantarctican Will you jion me

@Lidraughtsorg New variant CM chess!


By the way, its actually CQ for candidate queen.

The chess obsession with titles really shows how badly they want to justify to themselves hours wasted on a board game rather than applicable sciences, or anything actually worth sinking thousands of hours into, for that matter. (P.S. People who deserve titles do more than play games all day.)

Actually, it's usually the people without titles who are obsessed by them. ;)

Haha Pushwood was obsessed enough to downvote both my comments, and yet provides no counter-arguments, just his usual terse flippancy which tends to mock. Ain't got that grade baby. You're like one of those hoodlums who need summer school just to scrape a pass, smoking pot in the car park :D Get to summer school boy! Or I'll whoop your az!

At least now we know what happened to Bowser (from Sha Na Na).

NM is not a title??? NM is an official title.

I personally think that the people who think that NM isn't a title are the people who are jealous that they don't have it! :)

Can somebody define “master” for me tho

The lower FIDE titles are defined in terms of rating (>2200 for CM and >2300 for FM). They are what they are, these are more or less arbitrary numbers.

I confess I don't quite understand lichess' policy towards NM which is a national rather than a FIDE title. As I understand it, lichess (which is a French site) recognises the USCF NM title but not the NM title given by other federations. Or am I wrong here?
What is the logic - is it that US players tend to have less opportunity to compete in FIDE events than European/Asian ones?

I am quite glad that some people don't have a master title at chess. Considering how obsessed they already are with their Lichess rating (which isn't of much importance) their bragging and trash talking would be unbearable if they had a CM or NM before their name.