Editing Grandmaster (chess) (section)

====1957 regulations====
After FIDE issued the 1953 title regulations, it was recognized that they were somewhat haphazard, and work began to revise the regulations. The FIDE Congress in Vienna in 1957 adopted new regulations, called the FAV system, in recognition of the work done by [[International Arbiter|International Judge]] Giovanni Ferrantes (Italy), Alexander (probably [[Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander]]), and Giancarlo Dal Verme (Italy). Under the 1957 regulations, the title of International Grandmaster of the FIDE was automatically awarded to:
# The world champion.
# Any player qualifying from the [[Interzonal]] tournament to play in the Candidates Tournament, even if he did not play in the Candidates for any reason.
# Any player who would qualify from the Interzonal to play in the Candidates but who was excluded because of a limitation on the number of participants from his Federation.
# Any player who actually plays in a Candidates Tournament and scores at least 33⅓ percent.
The regulations also allowed titles to be awarded by a FIDE Congress on recommendation by the Qualification Committee. Recommendations were based on performance in qualifying tournaments, with the required score depending on the percentage of Grandmasters and International Masters in the tournament.<ref name="Harkness1967">{{citation |last=Harkness |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Harkness |year=1967 |title=Official Chess Handbook |publisher=David McKay Company |pages=211–214 |lccn=66013085 |oclc=728637}}</ref>