The Cortland County Clerk's Office issues and receives all applications and amendments for pistol permits. In Cortland County, Judge William F. Ames and Judge Julie A. Campbell are the licensing officers of handguns and licensing is completely within their discretion.
In 1998 Hikaru Nakamura (born Dec 9, 1987) bacame America's youngest master at 10 years, 79 days. In 2001 he became America's youngest International Master at age 13. The first list of grandmasters appeared in 1950, published by FIDE. There were 27 chess players nominated as the first grandmasters.
To qualify for the title of Grandmaster of chess, a title awarded by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, a player must achieve two or more grandmaster norms in events covering a minimum of 27 games.n March 2009, the United States Chess Federation introduced its own title system. This system requires five norms in order to achieve titles at seven different levels, ranking from Life Senior Master down to 4th category.