{"id":4001,"date":"2023-08-07T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:40:39","slug":"joseph-levine-achieves-third-im-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/joseph-levine-achieves-third-im-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Levine achieves third IM Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Washington State junior chess player Joseph Levine, who recently achieved the third and final norm required for the FIDE International Master (IM) title, at a tournament in Budapest, Hungary! He achieved the first two required norms last year and earlier this year at events in Los Angeles. Here&#8217;s a summary of the three events, with links to results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norm #1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hollywood Norm Classic #3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Los Angeles, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022\/08\/03 \u2013 2022\/08\/07<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr658108.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;fed=USA&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=26\">https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr658108.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;fed=USA&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=26<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Norm #2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1000GM LA GM Norm Invitational<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Los Angeles, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023\/02\/22 \u2013 2023\/02\/26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr730400.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=10\">https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr730400.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Norm #3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vezerkepzo 7days GM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Budapest, Hungary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023\/07\/24 &#8211; 2023\/07\/30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr792210.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;fed=USA&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=10\">https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr792210.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=9&amp;fed=USA&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30&amp;snr=10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph also has previous international tournament experience at the 2016 Intermat BC vs. WA (Vancouver, Canada) and at the 2017 Pan American (San Jose, Costa Rica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His current US Chess rating is 2360 (with the National Master and Life Master titles &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/MbrDtlMain.php?15694597\">https:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/MbrDtlMain.php?15694597<\/a>), and his current FIDE rating is 2371 (with the FIDE Master title &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/ratings.fide.com\/profile\/30940346\">https:\/\/ratings.fide.com\/profile\/30940346<\/a>). Note that his new IM title will take some time to be approved at the next FIDE council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some photos from the Budapest tournament: (with commentary by Lisa Levine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.5\/9 points were needed for an IM norm.&nbsp;Joseph had 4.5 points after round 7, so we felt pretty good.&nbsp;But then he lost round 8 playing black.&nbsp;For round 9 he got another black and was paired against the highest player in the 16-person Swiss, so we didn\u2019t feel too hopeful.&nbsp;Charles (Joseph\u2019s dad) messaged him the night before to ask what his strategy was going to be.&nbsp;Joseph texted back: \u201cplay relatively fast, complicate things, try to find a couple miracles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, we got the miracle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first picture shows the players adjusting the pieces and shows that there was a spacious place to play with the boards spread out on separate tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Levine before game starts.\" class=\"wp-image-4002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_before-game-starts.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second picture shows when I peeked into the room and saw the opponent looking stressed, which made me think Joseph might have a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Levine game in progress.\" class=\"wp-image-4003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_maybe-Joseph-has-a-chance.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The third picture is the arbiter giving me a thumbs up after confirming the norm.&nbsp; He was super nice and felt bad that Joseph got black against the top player for the final round but that\u2019s what the pairing program gave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Levine: The arbiter gives a thumbs up!\" class=\"wp-image-4004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_arbiter-gives-a-thumbs-up.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth picture is the organizer (GM Attila Czebe), Joseph holding the norm certificate, and the arbiter (IA David Bela).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The organizer, Joseph Levine, and the arbiter.\" class=\"wp-image-4005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Levine_organizer-Joseph-arbiter.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a great experience coming to Budapest for chess.&nbsp;Everyone has been so nice, and Joseph has made a couple of new chess friends from other countries.&nbsp;The tournaments have been well run, but they are much tougher than I realized they\u2019d be.&nbsp;Each tournament typically has three GMs and several FMs and IMs who are fighting hard to get norms, so it\u2019s a very competitive, almost tense situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Washington State junior chess player Joseph Levine, who recently achieved the third and final norm required for the FIDE International Master (IM) title, at a tournament in Budapest, Hungary! He achieved the first two required norms last year and earlier this year at events in Los Angeles. Here&#8217;s a summary of the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourn","tag-fide-norms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}