Answers.Body: <p>A theoretician is someone who has created a new opening, middlegame and / or endgame variation. You don't have to be a grandmaster to become one, and not all grandmasters are ones.</p>
  
  <p>It may not apply if your variation is not tactical or is useless.</p>
  
  <p>I don't think it matters where a theoretician comes from, as everyone has different chess experience, and whether you are an active tournament player or not.</p>
  
  <p>People who have written about chess theory in general are chess theoreticians.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Its just like in mathematics when one doesn't need to be a university or college graduate student with a "Batchelor of Science in Mathematics" to be a " mathematician. " All that counts is " New Idea," a workable or applicable " mathematical ideas " Ideas that works, mathematically. Same goes apply to aspiring "chess theoretician."</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Actually I would hardly be able to name any "mathematician" who wouldn't have some degree in mathematics or in science. At least for the last 100 years, i.e. after Srinivasa Ramanujan joined Cambridge.
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Body: <p>What does it mean to be an opening theoretician, and how does one achieve this status? Does it imply that one should not be an active tournament player? Apart from opening theoreticians are there middlegame and endgame theoreticians, too? Why are most theoreticians from eastern europe? </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Related: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1606/how-to-get-opening-analysis-published-and-in-eco
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Comments.Text: The last question may have something to do with the Soviet chess school, which was funded by Soviet. Soviet covered most of eastern Europe, and resouces spent on chess education were plentiful. Naturally, the study of chess theory would become more culturally accepted as something respectable.
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Comments.Text: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't do these, do research."
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Comments.Text: Actually, @Tom, doing research involves offering your ideas up for criticism
  by the sharpest minds around. Applies to chess theory.
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Title: How does one become a theoretician?
ThreadText: # How does one become a theoretician?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-04-23)
  
  What does it mean to be an opening theoretician, and how does one achieve this status? Does it imply that one should not be an active tournament player? Apart from opening theoreticians are there middlegame and endgame theoreticians, too? Why are most theoreticians from eastern europe?
  
  **Tags:** opening, theory, endgame, middlegame
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Related: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1606/how-to-get-opening-analysis-published-and-in-eco  
  > **username_2**: The last question may have something to do with the Soviet chess school, which was funded by Soviet. Soviet covered most of eastern Europe, and resouces spent on chess education were plentiful. Naturally, the study of chess theory would become more culturally accepted as something respectable.  
  > **username_3**: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't do these, do research."  
  > **username_4**: Actually, @Tom, doing research involves offering your ideas up for criticism by the sharpest minds around. Applies to chess theory.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2016-04-23. Score: 2
  
  A theoretician is someone who has created a new opening, middlegame and / or endgame variation. You don't have to be a grandmaster to become one, and not all grandmasters are ones.
  
  It may not apply if your variation is not tactical or is useless.
  
  I don't think it matters where a theoretician comes from, as everyone has different chess experience, and whether you are an active tournament player or not.
  
  People who have written about chess theory in general are chess theoreticians.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2017-09-22. Score: 1
  
  Its just like in mathematics when one doesn't need to be a university or college graduate student with a "Batchelor of Science in Mathematics" to be a " mathematician. " All that counts is " New Idea," a workable or applicable " mathematical ideas " Ideas that works, mathematically. Same goes apply to aspiring "chess theoretician."
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_7**: Actually I would hardly be able to name any "mathematician" who wouldn't have some degree in mathematics or in science. At least for the last 100 years, i.e. after Srinivasa Ramanujan joined Cambridge.  
  
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