Answers.Body: <h1>0 days.</h1>
  <p>There are 28 players who achieved the grandmaster title immediately:</p>
  <pre><code> 1            Fischer, Robert James                  
   2            Spassky, Boris V.                      
   3            Korchnoi, Viktor                        
   4            Larsen, Bent                           
   5            Petrosian, Tigran                      
   5=           Polugaevsky, Lev                        
   7            Portisch, Lajos                              
   7=         Botvinnik, Mikhail                      
   9            Smyslov, Vassily                       
   9=           Tal, Mikhail N.                         
  11            Geller, Efim P.                        
  11=           Keres, Paul                            
  13            Hort, Vlastimil                         
  13=           Stein, Leonid                           
  15            Taimanov, Mark E.                       
  15=           Gligoric, Svetozar
  17            Huebner, Robert                        
  17=           Bronstein, David I.                     
  19            Gipslis, Aivars                         
  20            Krogius, Nikolai V.                     
  21            Panno, Oscar
  22            Uhlmann, Wolfgang                     
  23           Olafsson, Fridrik                                     
  24            Balashov, Yuri S.                    
  25            Savon, Vladimir A.                     
  26            Vasiukov, Evgeni                       
  27           Tukmakov, Vladimir B.                    
  28           Boleslavsky, Isaak  
  </code></pre>
  <p>When FIDE first published their rating lists, these were the grandmasters who were deemed such by FIDE. Therefore, it took them zero days to become a grandmaster.</p>
  <p>(Source: <a href="http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo196900e.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo196900e.html</a>)</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Not quite what I'm looking for, and not even really technically correct, because all of these players had been playing "organized" chess for a long time prior to the award of the GM title by FIDE.  The question is more oriented towards players who achieved the GM title most quickly in the current "usual" way (via norms, or direct award due to their result in one of the tournaments noted in the FIDE title regulations), rather than players who were decreed to be GMs by FIDE before the later title regulations.
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Answers.Text: I think some context of that list has been lost. I don't think this can be the first grand master list by FIDE. Your source says the list is from 1969, but Larsen was awarded his GM title when he won gold-medal on board one at the 1956 Moscow Olympiad.
  
  Maybe the earlier lists are available somewhere?
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Answers.Body: <p>While various chess rating systems have been used since the 20th century, with the most impactful being the FIDE rating established in 1970, it seems to have no consequences for this question. This is because the list of &quot;quickest to become GM&quot; will indeed closely, if not entirely, coincide with the list of &quot;youngest GMs&quot;.</p>
  <p>One reason is that with people in the past it is often quite hard to ascertain when they started playing organized chess. Another reason is that requirements for the title of Grandmaster are arguably getting less hard over time and the practice of establishing GM tournaments with the aim of facilitating fulfillment of GM norms is not entirely uncommon.</p>
  <p>Therefore the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy#List_of_youngest_grandmasters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">list of youngest grandmasters and list of grandmasters under 15</a> is the place to go, with maybe even Fischer in the &quot;pre-GM-norm-hunt&quot; era being among the candidates for primacy; nowadays children prodigies play competitive chess since as early as 7 or 8. Fischer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Chess_beginnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">joined the Manhattan Chess Club at the age of 12, although he played at least children's tournaments since 1952</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The youngest GM in history is Abimanyu Mishra at roughly 12 years of age. If we are counting age here is is the person. If there were not COVID there would have been OTB games and an even more likely chance to get a norm faster. He got his final two in the space of a couple of months.</p>
  
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Body: <p>What player attained the GM title in the shortest amount of time, beginning from their entry into organized (rated) chess, to the award of the title (either via attaining norms, or by direct award)?  I would imagine that this player would probably also be in contention for &quot;youngest to attain GM title&quot;, but I know this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.</p>
  <p>(For purposes of this question, when I refer to &quot;organized chess&quot;, I generally mean competition in an event rated and sanctioned by FIDE, or sanctioned by a national sanctioning body recognized by FIDE (whether that play is rated by FIDE or not)).</p>
  
Tags: <history><grandmaster><records><titles>
Title: Who was the quickest from "unrated" to GM?
ThreadText: # Who was the quickest from "unrated" to GM?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-08-02)
  
  What player attained the GM title in the shortest amount of time, beginning from their entry into organized (rated) chess, to the award of the title (either via attaining norms, or by direct award)? I would imagine that this player would probably also be in contention for "youngest to attain GM title", but I know this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
  
  (For purposes of this question, when I refer to "organized chess", I generally mean competition in an event rated and sanctioned by FIDE, or sanctioned by a national sanctioning body recognized by FIDE (whether that play is rated by FIDE or not)).
  
  **Tags:** history, grandmaster, records, titles
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-08-06. Score: 5
  
  # 0 days.
  
  There are 28 players who achieved the grandmaster title immediately:
  
  ```
   1            Fischer, Robert James                  
   2            Spassky, Boris V.                      
   3            Korchnoi, Viktor                        
   4            Larsen, Bent                           
   5            Petrosian, Tigran                      
   5=           Polugaevsky, Lev                        
   7            Portisch, Lajos                              
   7=         Botvinnik, Mikhail                      
   9            Smyslov, Vassily                       
   9=           Tal, Mikhail N.                         
  11            Geller, Efim P.                        
  11=           Keres, Paul                            
  13            Hort, Vlastimil                         
  13=           Stein, Leonid                           
  15            Taimanov, Mark E.                       
  15=           Gligoric, Svetozar
  17            Huebner, Robert                        
  17=           Bronstein, David I.                     
  19            Gipslis, Aivars                         
  20            Krogius, Nikolai V.                     
  21            Panno, Oscar
  22            Uhlmann, Wolfgang                     
  23           Olafsson, Fridrik                                     
  24            Balashov, Yuri S.                    
  25            Savon, Vladimir A.                     
  26            Vasiukov, Evgeni                       
  27           Tukmakov, Vladimir B.                    
  28           Boleslavsky, Isaak  
  
  ```
  
  When FIDE first published their rating lists, these were the grandmasters who were deemed such by FIDE. Therefore, it took them zero days to become a grandmaster.
  
  (Source: <http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo196900e.html>)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Not quite what I'm looking for, and not even really technically correct, because all of these players had been playing "organized" chess for a long time prior to the award of the GM title by FIDE.  The question is more oriented towards players who achieved the GM title most quickly in the current "usual" way (via norms, or direct award due to their result in one of the tournaments noted in the FIDE title regulations), rather than players who were decreed to be GMs by FIDE before the later title regulations.  
  > **username_2**: I think some context of that list has been lost. I don't think this can be the first grand master list by FIDE. Your source says the list is from 1969, but Larsen was awarded his GM title when he won gold-medal on board one at the 1956 Moscow Olympiad.  Maybe the earlier lists are available somewhere?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2021-08-07. Score: 4
  
  While various chess rating systems have been used since the 20th century, with the most impactful being the FIDE rating established in 1970, it seems to have no consequences for this question. This is because the list of "quickest to become GM" will indeed closely, if not entirely, coincide with the list of "youngest GMs".
  
  One reason is that with people in the past it is often quite hard to ascertain when they started playing organized chess. Another reason is that requirements for the title of Grandmaster are arguably getting less hard over time and the practice of establishing GM tournaments with the aim of facilitating fulfillment of GM norms is not entirely uncommon.
  
  Therefore the [list of youngest grandmasters and list of grandmasters under 15](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy#List_of_youngest_grandmasters) is the place to go, with maybe even Fischer in the "pre-GM-norm-hunt" era being among the candidates for primacy; nowadays children prodigies play competitive chess since as early as 7 or 8. Fischer [joined the Manhattan Chess Club at the age of 12, although he played at least children's tournaments since 1952](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Chess_beginnings).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2021-08-13. Score: 0
  
  The youngest GM in history is Abimanyu Mishra at roughly 12 years of age. If we are counting age here is is the person. If there were not COVID there would have been OTB games and an even more likely chance to get a norm faster. He got his final two in the space of a couple of months.
  
  
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