NM is Not Master, thoughts?

Elitism is dead!
- IM Aman Hambleton

Who posted this lol....

Someone should play a chess game on the moon and then they are the first NM of the moon: moon master! :)

And somehow, you go from candidate master, to not a master, to international master, to grandmaster? I'd better ask Magnus Carlsen what happened when he suddenly went from a candidate master to being named not master at all and how he recovered.

Also @Vegemite_Fighter technically the title of grandmaster applies to the entire galaxy, and international master applies to the Earth. So you'd have an international moon master.

"- IM Aman Hambleton"

Hambleton is a GM. *whistle*

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All those titles spice it up a bit.
The only real title is the GM with some monetary perks and even that title is nowadays held by teenagers.

@LukaCro Would be nice if there would be the NM title in every country, but for instance in Germany NM is actually no title, you can not get it. So playing in national competitions is actually pointless if your (only) goal is to achieve a title in Germany. Instead you need to go for FIDE i. e. international titles.

@TheSubtleBlunder Seems accurate, although I'd put GM = Genuine Master.

I refused NM, and still would rather not have that label.