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New Thought-Process

I am investigating this matter myself and here are my first thoughts about it: First we are afraid of Knights, then we watch out for simple tactics. After handling that comes a new level of play when we are starting to watch out for weak squares in our camp or bad pawn structures. Propylaxis becomes a part of our play. We are starting to appreciate even the slightest things. Ofcourse thought-process changes as intuition does too. But how can someone young as Carlsen and/or Fischer (When they were young) develop that kind of intuition in that little time? I think I am not wrong while saying this, but in the past GMs weren't born, they were made. I am not respecting the GM title of a 17 year old boy as much as I do from a guy in his 40s. Somehow I think that older players deserved that title. We have 14,15 years old GMs... Come on... They say there are no shortcuts in chess, they're wrong. We need to figure them out!
Seems like they have an unfair advantage.The youngest known Gm to date is some India kid who is around 13 years old today but no one in the 5 to 10 years old range or younger than 5 recognized by FIDE.
@Detoxication Everyone that gets the title deserves it as much. It's the performance that makes them deserve it, not how hard it is.
Nowadays they have played millions of games in the internet, they have got high-class engines, databases sources. Of course there 10.000 hours of chess count more than ever before.

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