who became the youngest grandmaster in the world
Hou Yifan


Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and four-time Women's World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, she is the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship. At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever
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Aryan Chopra


Aryan Chopra (born 10 December 2001) is an Indian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster (GM) in 2016, at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 3 days. The title was officially awarded by FIDE in 2017. He became the second youngest Indian to become Grandmaster, after Parimarjan Negi. Currently he is India's fifth youngest Grandmaster. Chopra began playing chess at the age of six after an accident left him temporarily house-bound. Chopra achieved his first grandmaster norm at the 2015 Riga Technical University
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Bobby Fischer


Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a known as "The Game of the Century". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship
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Eduard Gufeld


Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (19 March 1936 – 23 September 2002) was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author. Gufeld began participating in chess tournaments in 1953 and won the junior championship of Ukraine the following year. He became an International Master in 1964 and an International Grandmaster in 1967. In 1977, he ranked 16th in the world with an Elo rating of 2570. He moved to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where he coached Maia Chiburdanidze, who became the youngest women's world chess champion in 1978
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Chess prodigy


Champion (before the official title existed), Capablanca became the third World Champion, and Reshevsky—while never attaining the title—was amongst the top few players in the world for many decades. One measure of chess prodigies (since 1950, when the title was introduced) is the age at which they gain the Grandmaster title. Below are players who have held the record for youngest grandmaster. The record has been held by Sergey Karjakin (then Ukraine) since 2002. The age listed is the age at which they
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Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel


Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel (born 15 February 2000) is a Mongolian chess player and one of the Mongolian leading players in modern history. A chess prodigy, she is the Mongolian chess player who became first ever World Youth Chess Champion and Asian Youth Champion. She won the World Youth Chess Championships in her age and gender category. She holds two Grandmaster (GM) norms, and she is The youngest Mongolian chess player who earned Woman Grandmaster title age of 14th. Also earned the International Master title age of 15th. She
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Richárd Rapport


years, 11 months and 6 days, he became the youngest ever Hungarian grandmaster (the previous record was held by former world title challenger Péter Lékó), and the fifth youngest chess grandmaster in history at the time. In May, Rapport tied for first in the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, together with Nigel Short and Nils Grandelius, winning on tiebreaks (head-to-head result). He scored 4½/7 (+3−1=3). In December, Rapport won the European Rapid Chess Championship and finished fourth in the European
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa


Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born ) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he is the fourth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster (GM), behind Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov. Praggnanandhaa is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He won the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title in 2013 earning him the title of FIDE Master at the age of 7. He also won the Under-10 title in 2015. In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master in history, at the
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Samuel Sevian


. In November 2012, he became the world champion in the U12 category at the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia. In May 2013, Sevian was invited to play in the U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis as the youngest ever participant. The field consisted of 24 players and Sevian scored 4/9, which placed him in shared 14th place ahead of several grandmasters. In November 2014 Sevian became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, and 27 days, a new US record. After completing all
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Gabriel Schwartzman


Gabriel Schwartzman is a Romanian-born American chess Grandmaster. Schwartzman is originally from Bucharest, Romania and moved to Florida, USA. He played in his first chess tournament at the age of 4, obtained the FIDE Master title when he was 12 years old, and just 3 years later became an International Master. In November 1993, the FIDE Congress in Curitiba, Brazil awarded him the International Grandmaster title, making him one of the youngest Grandmasters in the world at that time at the age of 17. In 1988 he
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Alejandro Ramírez (chess player)


Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez (born 21 June 1988 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-born American chess grandmaster. At the age of 15, he became the first Central American to achieve the grandmaster title and the second youngest chess grandmaster in the world at the time. He graduated from the University of Texas in Dallas with a master's degree in arts and technology, video game design. Ramírez started playing chess at the age of four after watching the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and was
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Peter Leko


Peter Leko (; ; born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. A two-time World Championship Candidate, he challenged Vladimir Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 and drew the match 7–7, with Kramnik retaining the title. Leko has achieved victories in many major chess tournaments, including the annual tournaments at Dortmund, Linares, Wijk aan Zee and the Tal Memorial in Moscow. He won two team silver medals and an individual gold
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda


for first with Jan Krejčí in the Olomouc Chess Summer tournament. Duda earned his international master title in 2012, and was awarded his grandmaster title in 2013, at the age of 15 years and 21 days. This made him the second youngest grandmaster in the world at the time. It also makes him the second youngest Polish grandmaster ever, after Dariusz Świercz. In April 2013, he came first in the First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest. In August, he took part as a FIDE president nominee in the Chess World
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Bu Xiangzhi


Bu Xiangzhi (; born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and Chinese champion in 2004. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2015 World Team Chess Championship. In 1999, he became China's 10th Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue. Bu was born
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Alexander Kochyev


Alexander Kochyev (; born March 25, 1956 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1977). In the 1970s, he was one of the youngest grandmasters in the world. In 1972, he won the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championship and in 1975, became European Junior Champion. He came 12th in the USSR Chess Championship of 1977. In 1978, he won the team silver and individual gold medal playing board two for the Soviet team at the 1st World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship. In 1979, he
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Women's World Chess Championship


. In 2008, the title went to Russian grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, who, in the final, beat Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan 2–1, then aged 14 (see Women's World Chess Championship 2008). In 2010 the title returned to China once again. Hou Yifan, the runner-up in the previous championship, became the youngest ever women's world champion at the age of 16. She beat her compatriot WGM Ruan Lufei 2–2 (classic) 3–1 (rapid playoffs). Beginning from 2010, the Women's World
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Sports in Andhra Pradesh


lead in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–2014 and won many awards namely Asias youngest International Woman Master (1999), World under-14 championship, Castellan, Spain (2001), Indias youngest Woman Grand Master (2001), World Junior Championship, Athens (2001), Arjuna Award in (2003). Pendyala Harikrishna, is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12 September 2001. Won gold medals in Commonwealth Chess Championship (1999, 2000, 2001), Ron Banwell
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Wei Yi


Wei Yi (born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the fifth youngest in history. He is the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700, accomplishing this feat at age 15. Wei represents the Jiangsu club in the China Chess League. In 2007, he competed in the Chinese Chess Championship B group at the age of 8, recording a draw against Grandmaster Zhou Jianchao. In 2009,
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David Howell (chess player)


2000. In 2001, Howell came joint first at the European Youth Chess Championships in the Under 12 category and joint second at the World Youth Chess Championships in the same category. In the Hastings Challengers tournament in January 2001, Howell became the youngest ever British player to defeat a grandmaster at classical time controls when he beat Colin McNab. In March 2002, Howell drew the last of four games with the Einstein Group World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, becoming the youngest player in the world to score against a reigning world chess champion
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Awonder Liang


Awonder Liang (born April 9, 2003) is an American chess prodigy. He is the second youngest American to qualify for the title of Grandmaster (after Samuel Sevian) and fifteenth-youngest in history. Liang was twice world champion in his age category. On April 16, 2011, when he played in the Hales Corners Challenge chess tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Awonder became the youngest chess expert in United States Chess Federation (USCF) history with a rating of 2000 at the age of 8 years and 7 days
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List of world records in chess


Karjakin. In 2002 he qualified for the title at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 0 days. See List of youngest grandmasters for the history of this record. Several players have been awarded honorary or retrospective grandmaster titles based on their past achievements. The oldest of these was Enrico Paoli, who was awarded the title in 1996 at the age of 88. Apart from retrospective awards, a number of players have achieved the title by winning the World Senior Championship. The oldest player to gain the title in
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Mark Bluvshtein


Mark Bluvshtein (born 20 April 1988) is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player and a Grandmaster. He became the youngest Canadian International Grandmaster (GM) ever in 2004, at the age of 16, having become an International Master (IM) at the age of 13. His highest rating was 2611, in July 2011 FIDE rating list. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Alexander Riazantsev. In September 2011 Bluvshtein retired from chess and is pursuing other career
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Carlito A. Lanada, Sr.


as developed, taught, and propagated by Great Grandmaster Carlito A. Lanada, Sr. Kuntaw is an eclectic art encompassing hard/soft techniques with elements that show the influence of Karate and Kung-fu styles and cat-like movements, with 43 distinctive forms, 86 basics, and Arnis as its weapon of choice. In 1966 the Great Grandmaster was rewarded by his peers the title of “Youngest Filipino Martial Art Founder”. In 1968 his organization became a founding member of the World Union of Karate-Do Organizations (
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Dibyendu Barua


Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion. Barua is from Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. In 1978, Barua, as a 12-year-old, became the youngest participant in the Indian Chess Championship. In 1982, Barua defeated the then-world number two ranked Viktor Korchnoi in London. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1991 by FIDE, becoming the second Indian to achieve the title, after Viswanathan Anand. In 1983
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Hou Yifan


identify almost all of his weak moves. "Then I knew she was an exceptional genius," Ye said. That year, Hou became the youngest member of the national team and won first place at the World Youth Championship for girls under age ten. In June 2007, she became China's youngest ever national champion. She was admitted to the National Chess Center, an academy for young talented players from all over the country, in Beijing when she was ten, with leading Chinese grandmasters Ye Jiangchuan and Yu Shaoteng as
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David Howell (chess player)


. In August 1999, Howell became famous internationally when he broke the world record for the youngest player to have defeated a Grandmaster in an official game. Aged 8, he defeated John Nunn in a blitz game at the Mind Sports Olympiad. Howell still holds this record. He is also the youngest player in the world to have qualified to compete in a national chess championship, taking part in the British Chess Championship in August 2000. He came fourth in the Player of the Year ballot held by the British Chess Federation during
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Parimarjan Negi


Negi thus became the youngest chess grandmaster ever in India, breaking Pentala Harikrishna's record, and the second youngest ever in the world. Negi won the strong Philadelphia International Open Tournament in June 2008 with a score of 7/9, and was undefeated. In August 2008, he finished second, behind Abhijeet Gupta, at the World Junior Chess Championship in Gazientep. In 2009 he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen with 8.5/10, on tiebreaks over Boris Avrukh, and the 6th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.
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Gennady Kuzmin


team gold and individual bronze medal at the 1974 Nice Olympiad with a superb +10 =5 -0 performance, despite being selected only as a reserve. Gennady Kuzmin is a chess trainer in Ukraine and along with Yuri Kruppa, has helped rising star Kateryna Lahno become the world's youngest Woman Grandmaster. He was also a trainer to Ruslan Ponomariov when he became the youngest (FIDE) world champion in history, at 18 years and 104 days. He runs a chess school on the official website of the Ukraine Chess Federation, where
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Maia Chiburdanidze


Maia Chiburdanidze (; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. She has won nine Chess Olympiads. Maia Chiburdanidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR and started playing chess around the age of eight. She became the USSR girls' champion in 1976 and a year later she won the women's title. In 1977 she was awarded the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Daniël Stellwagen


contest at the De Feijter Festival in Deventer with an unprecedented 100%. In 2004 he became a grandmaster at 18 years old, making him the youngest Dutch grandmaster ever. Between 2003 and 2008 he participated in the Dutch Championships every year, becoming one of the most successful players in the championship with four second places overall. In 2007 he shared first place in the Dutch Championship but lost the final tiebreak to Sergey Tiviakov. In 2007 Daniel also finished shared 5th at the World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan. Daniel has been
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Arjun Erigaisi


Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days making him the 32nd youngest person ever to achieve the title of grandmaster. He is the 5th grand master from Telugu states and 54th from India. Arjun is from Telangana, India. He is the first grandmaster from Hanumakonda(Warangal), Telangana state. He became a grandmaster in August 2018. He was also the winner of a silver medal in 2015 Asian Youth
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Pentala Harikrishna


Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is a chess Grandmaster from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12 September 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004 and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. On personal front, he married Nadezda Stojanovic, the Serbian chess prodigy, in 2018. Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013. He represented India at seven
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Teimour Radjabov


Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; ; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster former child prodigy. As of July 2019, he is ranked as No. 1 in Azerbaijan and No. 12 in the world rankings. Radjabov earned the title of grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time. In 2003, Radjabov gained international attention after beating the-then World No. 1 Garry Kasparov in the Linares tournament, followed by victories
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Humpy Koneru


Humpy Koneru (born 31 March 1987, Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In October 2007, she became the second female player, after Judit Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606. In 2002, Koneru became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of grandmaster (not solely a Woman Grandmaster) at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgár's previous mark by three months; this record was subsequently broken by Hou Yifan in
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Dubai Open Chess Tournament


record in participation with 189 players from 37 countries competing in the 9-round Swiss System tournament. The participants included 46 Grandmasters, which was also a new record, eight Woman Grandmasters, 39 International Masters, five Woman International Masters, 22 Fide Masters and two Woman Fide Masters. The tournament is also known to have attracted many young talented players, including world champion Magnus Carlsen, who earned his final GM norm with a round to spare in the 2004, making him the world's youngest GM at the time and the third-
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Sergey Karjakin


Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (, ; born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster (formerly representing Ukraine). A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months. Karjakin won the European U10 Chess Championship in 1999, and he was World U12 Chess Champion in 2001. He earned the international master title at age 11, and was awarded his grandmaster title in 2003. He represented Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad in
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Teimour Radjabov


chances. However, the sacrifice was called "desperation" by GM Miguel Illescas, and according to Chessbase.com, "The Grandmasters we have talked to praised Radjabov's resilience in a bad position but criticized the game as unworthy of a prize because it was based on blunders." Radjabov became the first player born since Kasparov first became World Chess Champion in 1985, to defeat him. Radjabov is also the youngest player in history to defeat a reigning world No. 1 in a game at tournament time controls. In an interview
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Fabiano Caruana


Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian-American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States at the time. Born in Miami to Italian-American parents, Caruana grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He played for the United States until 2005, when he transferred to Italy. He earned his grandmaster title in 2007, and in the
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Bobby Fischer


enormous talent was noticeable, and in addition one sensed an enormous amount of work on the study of chess. Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein said of Fischer's time in Portorož: "It was interesting for me to observe Fischer, but for a long time I couldn't understand why this 15-year-old boy played chess so well". Fischer became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Candidates and the youngest ever grandmaster at 15 years, 6 months, 1 day. "By then everyone knew we had a genius on
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Bobby Cheng


Youth Chess Championships in 2007, the year he and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. In November 2009, Cheng transferred national federations from New Zealand to Australia and won the Under 12 title at the World Youth Championships in Kemer, Turkey. Cheng won the Australian Junior Championship in January 2010, at age 12, becoming the youngest player ever to do so, and won the same title again in 2011. Also in 2011, Cheng became the youngest ever winner of the Victorian Championship title, finishing ahead of Grandmaster Darryl
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Surya Shekhar Ganguly


chess at the age of 5. Soon he became very popular in chess circles of Kolkata as he was the youngest player in most tournaments taking place during those days and also won prizes. In 1991, at the age of 8, he won both the Indian National U-10 and U-12 Championships. He won these Championships again in 1992 and 1995. The following are his achievements in the World Youth Chess Championship in his age categories: In 1995, at the age of 11, he beat a Grandmaster, the youngest player ever
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FIDE World Chess Championship 2002


The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002. The Ukrainian Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov, aged 18, won the championship and became the youngest FIDE World Champion. At the time of this championship, the World title was split. The Classical World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, did not participate, as well as the previous Classical Champion and world's highest-rated
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Judit Polgár


Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE Top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the
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Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn


Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn (; born 23 February 1990) is a Vietnamese chess player. He is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game, having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen. Nguyễn learnt to play chess at the age of 3. He won the gold medal at the World Under-10 Championship in 2000. In 2006 Nguyễn won the Asian Junior (Under-20) Chess Championship in New Dehli, on tiebreak over Shiyam Sundar after they both finished
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Dubai Open Chess Tournament


first major international tournament when he topped the Dubai Open in April 2008, just a few months before he turned 15. Wesley So was the youngest grandmaster in the world when he won the event and he is the tournament's youngest champion. The Dubai Open Chess Tournament became known for its aggressive stance against cheating in chess. In 2008, an untitled Iranian player, M. Sadatnajafi, was caught receiving moves by SMS on his cellphone. Sadatnajafi's games were subsequently annulled and he was disqualified from the tournament. In 2015,
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Richárd Rapport


Richárd Rapport (born 25 March 1996) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. As a chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 11 months and 6 days. This makes him Hungary's youngest ever grandmaster. He was Hungarian Chess Champion in 2017. He is one of the most original players in the world and often surprises with many unusual ideas and experiments early in the opening. Rapport was born in Szombathely, to Tamás Rapport and Erzsébet Mórocz, both economists. He learned chess at age
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Étienne Bacrot


Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov. He became a Grandmaster in March 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months, making him the youngest person to that date to have held the title (later in December, Ruslan Ponomariov took his record). Bacrot served as one of the four advisors to the world team in the 1999 Kasparov versus the World event. He has a son, Alexandre, with Nathalie Bonnafous. Bacrot has played several
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Gawain Jones


Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess player and chess author. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007, he won the British Chess Championship in 2012 and 2017. Jones competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2017. Jones began playing chess at the age of four, competing in his first tournaments at six. In early 1997 he hit the headlines and was featured on the front page of "The Guardian" newspaper when he became the youngest player in the world ever to
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Michael Adams (chess player)


he had to play them simultaneously, commuting cautiously between different rooms, some thirty metres apart. In 1987, he took the silver medal at the World Under-16 Championship, held in Innsbruck, behind the Icelandic player Hannes Stefansson. Later that year, at the age of fifteen, he became the world's youngest International Master (IM). Two books co-written with his father, Bill Adams, "Development of a Grandmaster" (1991) and "Chess in the Fast Lane" (1996), discuss his
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Mijo Udovčić


Mijo Udovčić (September 11, 1920 - April 8, 1984) was a Yugoslavian chess player, who became the first Croatian Grandmaster in 1962. Jointly with Borislav Ivkov, he won the Yugoslav championships in 1963. Udovčić gained the title of International Master in 1957 and became a Grandmaster in 1962. He was the first Croatian player to attain the Grandmaster title. Chessmetrics gives his highest rating as 2618 in January 1953, which places him 39th in the world at that time. As well as being a top chess player,
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Nihal Sarin


, Greece but had to settle for silver on the tiebreak. In an article on the World Chess website analyzing his game, GM Parimarjan Negi, who was once the world's second-youngest grandmaster, referred to Nihal as "mature beyond his years", and writes about one of the key moves with the white pieces in his analysis: ""It's hard to say if this is objectively the strongest move - probably not - but it sure is creative! At the moment, it is very hard to see
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Awonder Liang


27, 2011, he won the gold medal in the under-8 open section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Caldas Novas, Brazil. This win earned him the titles of U-8 world chess champion and FIDE Master. On July 29, 2012, he became the youngest player ever to defeat a Grandmaster (GM) in a standard time limit tournament game. It occurred in round 3 of the Washington International in Rockville, Maryland, when he defeated GM Larry Kaufman. Awonder was 9 years, 111 days old at the time
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Daniel Naroditsky


youngest player ever to do so. Later that year, Naroditsky won the Under-12 division of the World Youth Chess Championship with a score of 9½/11. In May 2008, he won the Northern California 9-12 Chess Championship. At the 2010 U.S. Open, Naroditsky scored 7½/9 to share second through fifth places, behind Grandmaster Alejandro Ramírez and tied with Grandmasters Alexander Shabalov and Varuzhan Akobian. Naroditsky played in the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship but finished with more losses than wins. In July 2011 he earned his first Grandmaster norm. Naroditsky
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Stany G.A.


Stany G A (born 22 January 1993) is an Indian chess player and a chess grandmaster. In 2012, he became Karnataka's youngest international master at the time after completing his final norm in Rethymno International Open, Greece. On December 2018 he completed his final grand master norm in National Senior Chess Championship, Jammu and became India's fifty-eighth and Karnataka's second grandmaster. He was given the Ekalavya Award by the Govt of Karnataka in 2012. Stany is a B.Com graduate from PES Shivamogga and he did his
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Akshayraj Kore


Akshayraj Kore (born 1 September 1988), is an Indian chess player and a Grandmaster. In 2006, he became Maharashtra's youngest International Master at the time after he won the Invitational IM Norm Round Robin Chess Tournament in Luhansk, Ukraine. In February 2013, he became India's 32nd Grandmaster. Kore was born on 1 September 1988 in Ahmednagar, India. Shortly thereafter his family moved to Sangli, Maharashtra, India. In 1996, his family moved to Pune. There he went to MAEER's MIT High School
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Gordey Kolesov


Guangzhou specifically to train Gordey. Between November 2014 and April 2015, Gordey took part in several chess qualification tournaments. In April he won the qualification tournament in Shenzhen and earned the top rank in chess. Gordey received his champion's cup from Ye Jiangchuan, a Chinese grandmaster and the coach of several world champions, including the three-time women's chess champion (2010, 2011, 2013) and the youngest female grandmaster Hou Yifan. At the world schoolchildren's championship in Pattaya, Thailand (May 5–15, 2015)
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Alireza Firouzja


Alireza Firouzja (, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian chess player. He is the second youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700 (after Wei Yi) , accomplishing this at age of 16 years and 1 month. As a chess prodigy, he won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and became a grandmaster at the age of 14. , Firouzja is the No. 1 ranked Iranian player and the No. 1 U16 player in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2702. Firouzja was
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Nigel Short


his best result during his first attempt, when he placed second to Garry Kasparov in 1980 at Dortmund. Short represented England in international team play for the first time at the 1983 European Team finals in Plovdiv. He was awarded the grandmaster title in 1984, aged 19—becoming the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time. Short's assaults on the World Chess Championship title began in earnest in 1985 when he narrowly qualified from the Biel Interzonal to become Britain's first-ever candidate. He needed a playoff to advance past John
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Strider (arcade game)


a bottomless pit) or when the game's timer reaches zero. It is Game Over when all of Hiryu's lives are lost, but the player can be given the opportunity to continue. "Strider" is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked member of an organization of high-tech ninja agents known as the "Striders", is alone tasked with the Grandmaster's assassination.
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Ashot Nadanian


the Armenian Chess Academy website. According to Russian grandmaster Igor Zaitsev, Nadanian is "one of the most profound opening researchers". After Nadanian graduated from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture in 1994, he became a chess trainer. At 26 he became the youngest Honoured Coach of Armenia. Among his students are Grandmasters Gabriel Sargissian, Varuzhan Akobian and Davit G. Petrosian. He has also occasionally helped GM Tigran L. Petrosian. From December 1999 until August 2001, Nadanian worked as the National Team Coach of Kuwait. Between 2005
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Mustafa Yılmaz


, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi Yılmaz, also a Turkish chess champion. He attended the same chess course in Mamak, Ankara with Kübra Öztürk, who became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2008, Yılmaz was admitted to the Turkish national chess team. The same year, he took part in the 38th Chess Olympiad held in Dresden, Germany. In 2009, he became the youngest Turkish chess champion, defeating Barış Esen in the final round and reaching a total score of 11½/13. At the initiative of the
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Falko Bindrich


title and became GM-elect. In October 2007, he was given the grandmaster title. At the age of 16, he was the youngest German ever to achieve the grandmaster title and was given the honorary title of Zittau and signed in the Golden Book of the city. Bindrich attended the 12th Neckar Open in 2008 and finished first out of over 300 participants, with 7½/9, finishing only half a point ahead of Leon Hoyos, Dgebuadze, Lauber, Graf, Krämer, Peralta, Chatalbashev, Erdos, and Fedorchuk,
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Luke McShane


the form of computer company Psion and played Garry Kasparov at a simultaneous exhibition in 1995. At sixteen he became the youngest ever Briton to achieve the title Grandmaster, gaining the three results required ("norms") in tournaments in Germany, Iceland and the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark. He held the record until David Howell broke it in January 2007. In January 2004 McShane was ranked second in the world among junior (under 21) players behind Teimour Radjabov. Among McShane's more notable results are joint first in
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Wesley So


Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Filipino Chess Champion and was U.S. Chess Champion in 2017. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest rated player in history. A former chess prodigy, So became the youngest player to pass a 2600 Elo rating in October 2008, breaking the record previously held by Magnus Carlsen. This
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Viktors Pupols


is one of only two games that Fischer ever lost on time (see time control). Fischer became the world's youngest grandmaster three years later. He first played in the Washington State Championship tournament in 1954. He has played in most of the tournaments since, winning outright in 1961, 1974, and 1989, and tying for first in 1978. He won the tournament in 1964, but Gerald Ronning took the title in a match. In 1975, he tied for 6th-11th in Vancouver (Paul Keres won, shortly
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Srinath Narayanan


Srinath Narayanan (born 14 February 1994) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in August 2017. Born in Chennai, he won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He works as a trainer for the Indian super-talent Nihal Sarin. In 2002, Srinath became the youngest FIDE rated player of India. In July 2005, he took the gold medal in the U12 division at the World Youth Chess Championships held in Belfort, France, edging out Sanan
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Fabiano Caruana


at age 14 years, 11 months and 20 days, became the youngest grandmaster of both the United States and Italy, surpassing the US record set by Hikaru Nakamura. Caruana played the strong Vlissingen chess tournament in the Netherlands in August. His last round opponent was former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Caruana playing black, drew the game in 82 moves, and won the tournament with a performance of 2715. In November and December Caruana participated in the Italian Championship. In 2006, he was the co-champion of Italy
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Samuel Sevian


Samuel Sevian (born December 26, 2000) is an American chess grandmaster. He earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 27 days, making him the United States' youngest ever grandmaster. He also broke age records when reaching the National Expert, Master and International Master titles. Sevian started to play chess at the age of 5 and his first major success came in 2009 when he broke the record for the youngest Expert in USCF history at 8 years, 2 months of age, beating
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Anish Giri


Anish Kumar Giri (; born June 28, 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch chess player. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days, which made him the youngest Grandmaster in the world at that time. FIDE awarded him the title in 2009. Giri is a four-time Dutch champion (2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010. He has represented the Netherlands at
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Falko Bindrich


German Youth Individual Championship (under ten) and travelled to Spain for the U10 World Cup, where he placed seventeenth. By 2001, aged 11, Falko was rated 2054 fide and had achieved first place in the German Youth Individual Championship U12. In 2002, Bindrich defeated Hungarian International Master Attila Parkanyi and in September, also defeated Swedish grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Persson in Fürth at the Pyramid Cup. In October 2002 he delivered an outstanding performance of 2500+ in the Czech Open Championship. In 2003, Bindrich became the youngest German
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David Howell (chess player)


David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess player. A three-time British champion (2009, 2013 and 2014), he is the youngest in the United Kingdom to hold the title Grandmaster, earned when he came second during the 35th Rilton Cup in Stockholm on 5 January 2007 at the age of 16. The previous record holder, Luke McShane, was six months older when he became a grandmaster. Howell was born in Eastbourne to Angeline (originally from Singapore) and Martin Howell.
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Arjun Vishnuvardhan


Grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev in a simultaneous chess exhibition held in the United Arab Emirates, thus becoming the youngest ever Indian chess player to defeat a grandmaster in a chess simultaneous exhibition held outside India. After a break of one year from chess, he successfully came back to the International chess circuit in 2004. He tied for the North American & Caribbean Youth Championship title in the same year. In 2005, he became the Youth Chess Champion and the triple gold winner in the Biel Chess Festival, held at Switzerland. A few months
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Sergei Makarichev


Sergei Yuryevic Makarichev (; born November 17, 1953) is a Russian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1976. Makarichev gained the title of International Master in 1974 and became a Grandmaster in 1976. His highest FIDE rating was 2550 in January 1991, which places him 84th in the world at that time. His best world ranking was 61st, in July 1983. He has not been an active player since July 1999. Makarichev is a noted chess trainer. He was Anatoly Karpov's second in the 1985 World
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Subbaraman Meenakshi


Subbaraman Meenakshi (born 24 October 1981), is an Indian Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2004). Subbaraman Meenakshi is youngest sister of the Indian chess Woman Grandmaster Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi. From 1991 to 2001, she represented India in Asia and World Youth Chess Championships in different age categories. In 1998, in Asian Youth Chess Championships Subbaraman Meenakshi won the silver medal in the U20 girls age group, but in 2001, shared 2nd-3rd place with Tania Sachdev in this tournament. In 2000, she won silver medal in the [[
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Jorden van Foreest


the age of 16. He was officially awarded his grandmaster title by FIDE in 2016. This makes him the Netherlands' youngest ever grandmaster (Anish Giri was awarded the title at a younger age but was not a Dutch player at the time). In September 2015, he competed in the World Junior Chess Championship. He finished sixth, scoring 8/13 (+5–2=6). In December 2015, Van Foreest won the Groningen Chess Festival with a score of 7½/9 (+7–1=1). In August 2016, he won the Dutch Chess
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Illya Nyzhnyk


. In December 2009 he won the Schaakfestival Groningen tournament in the Netherlands with a performance rating of 2741. In December 2010 he was equal first (GM Dejan Bojkov won on Buchholz tie-break) at the Schaakfestival Groningen tournament, securing his final GM norm and making him, at 14 years and three months, the youngest Grandmaster in the world. In January 2011 Nyzhnyk played in the Grandmaster Group C of the prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, finishing in second place with 8½/13. In 2011, he
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Joshua Ruiz


Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo (born 1997) is a Colombian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Ruiz Castillo won the Colombian Chess Championship in 2014, becoming the youngest Colombian champion ever. In 2017, he competed in the FIDE World Cup, and was knocked out by Wesley So in the first round. In 2019, Ruiz Castillo earned the title Grandmaster (GM) after his Elo rating exceeded 2500 during the Master Open Alekhine Memorial tournament in Russia. He achieved the norms required for
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Bu Xiangzhi


). He was 13 years 10 months 13 days old when he scored the final norm, at the time the youngest person to achieve that title. He gave up the running status of the world's youngest Grandmaster to Sergey Karjakin in July 2002. Also in 1999 he won the German Open. In 2000 in Germany he won in his first appearance the International Neckar Open in Deizisau, Stuttgart. Also in 2000, Bu defeated the Azerbaijani chess talent Teimour Radjabov 6½-1½ in an eight-game Future World Champions Match competition in
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Hikaru Nakamura


Nakamura defeated Stripunsky in two straight rapid chess playoff games to claim the title and become the youngest national champion since Fischer. Nakamura finished the tournament without a loss and, in the seventh round, defeated grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov, then the nation's top-ranked player. Following that victory, Nakamura played a challenge match dubbed the "Duelo de Jóvenes Prodigios" in Mexico against Ukrainian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and defeated his fellow prodigy, 4½–1½. In November and December 2005 Nakamura entered the FIDE World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
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Peng Xiaomin


Peng Xiaomin (; born April 8, 1973) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1997, he became China's 6th Grandmaster. Peng Xiaomin is married to WGM Qin Kanying. Peng has been a grandmaster since 1997. In 1998, he became the Chinese National Chess Champion. He played for the China national Olympiad team for 1994-2000. Peng competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 in New Delhi, where he reached the third round having been beaten by Peter Svidler 2.5-1.5. Peng was a World
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FIDE titles


Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Vladimir Kramnik are sometimes informally referred to as "Super-GMs". There are 44 players who would qualify for this title as of March 2019. Beginning with Nona Gaprindashvili in 1978, a number of women have earned the GM title. Since about 2000, most of the top 10 women have held the GM title. This should not be confused with the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title. At 12 years and 7 months, Sergey Karjakin became the youngest person ever
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Nisha Mohota


Nisha Mohota (born 13 October 1980 in Hinganghat) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the first WGM from the State of West Bengal. She became the then youngest Woman International Master (WIM) in April 1995 at the age of 14 years, 6 months and 13 days on 26 April 1995. In December 1996, Nisha was given a cash award by the then Prime Minister of India, H.D.Deve Gowda, for achieving the
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Michel Caillaud


Michel Caillaud (born 10 April 1957) is a French chess problemist. In 1993 Caillaud gained the title Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess Compositions. He was with 36 years of age the youngest GM for Chess Compositions. He has 200.92 points in FIDE Albums. Caillaud twice won the World Chess Solving Championship: 1987 in Graz and 2000 in Pula. In 2002 Caillaud gained the title International Solving Grandmaster. Solutions Proof game: "1.b4 h5 2.b5 Rh6 3.b6 Rc6 4.bxc7 Rxc2 5.cxb8=Q Rxd2 6.Qd6 Rxd1+ 7.Qxd1" or
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Ye Rongguang


Ye Rongguang (; born October 3, 1963 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang) is a retired Chinese chess Grandmaster, who in 1990, became the first ever Chinese player to gain the Grandmaster title. He was for more than ten years the coach of women's world chess champion Zhu Chen. He lives in the Netherlands, and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Netherlands Chinese Photographic Society. Ye Rongguang competed at the 1990 World Chess Championship (Manila VI-VII, Interzonal Tournament) where he finished in 44th place with 6/13 points
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Elisabeth Pähtz


Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985) is a German chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Pähtz was trained in chess from early childhood by her father Thomas Pähtz, a chess grandmaster. At the age of nine years she won her first German championship, in the under-11 age group. In 1999 she became Germany's women's chess champion. She served as one of four advisors on the World team in the 1999 Kasparov versus The World chess match
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Dinara Saduakassova


Dinara Saduakassova (born 31 October 1996) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Born in Astana, Kazakhstan, she won the World Youth Chess Championships twice, in the girls under-14 category in 2010 and girls under-18 in 2014. When she participated in the 2012 Olympiad in Istanbul, she was, at the age of fifteen, the youngest player, and her performance there resulted in her being awarded the Woman Grand Master title. That same year
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Cathy Warwick


on chess. They include the first full-length work on the Polgár sisters, published in 1992 shortly after Judit Polgár broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest grandmaster, and a 1993 biography of Nigel Short, a leading British player who was for a time ranked world No. 3. Susan Polgar has said that she was not happy with the former book as Warwick did not interview any of them and included rumour and speculation; however, Polgar added that Warwick has since acknowledged her mistake and she has no hard feelings
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Grandmaster (chess)


of the Soviet Union", for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country. This title was abolished in 1931, after having been awarded to Boris Verlinsky, who won the 1929 Soviet Championship. The title was brought back in 1935, and awarded to Mikhail Botvinnik, who thus became the first "official" Grandmaster of the USSR. Verlinsky did not get his title back. When FIDE reorganized after World War II it adopted regulations concerning international titles. Titles were awarded by a
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Dubai Open Chess Tournament


youngest GM in history at the age of 13 years, four months and 27 days. Other notable teenagers who have graced the tournament include Azerbaijan's Shakriyar Mamedyarov, who won the tournament in 2004 just two weeks after celebrating his 19th birthday, ahead of 138 players, including 39 grandmasters and 23 international masters. China's Wang Hao celebrated his 16th birth during the seventh edition of the tournament in 2005 and went on the claim the championship as an untitled player ahead of 53 grandmasters and 30 international masters. Wesley So won his
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Alexandre Lesiège


won the 1992 Canadian Chess Championship at Kingston, Ontario, defeating grandmaster Kevin Spraggett in the key game, and this made him the second-youngest Canadian champion ever, after Abraham Yanofsky, who was also 16 when he won in 1941. He was awarded the International Master title by FIDE, and qualified for the 1993 Interzonal Tournament at Biel, Switzerland. Lesiège won the Canadian title again in 1999 at Brantford. and in 2001 at Montreal with a tie-break match held in Brantford. He earned his Grandmaster title at
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Dariusz Świercz


Dariusz Świercz (born 31 May 1994) is a Polish chess player playing for the United States. He is one of the youngest in history and the youngest Polish of all time to qualify for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years and seven months in 2009. In 2018 he switched his national federation to the United States. Świercz won the 2011 World Junior Chess Championship at the age of 17 and is currently the only Polish male chess player to accomplish this title. The following year he also won the Under 18
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Leonard Barden


Howell, then 8, who at 16 became England's youngest grandmaster. In recognition of his efforts, Barden was offered an OBE, but declined it. Brian Walden has written that "Leonard Barden has done more for British chess than anybody since our famous 19th century champion, Howard Staunton." According to Chessmetrics, Barden's best single performance was at Hastings 1957–58, where he finished fourth behind Paul Keres, Svetozar Gligorić and Miroslav Filip, scoring 5/9 (56%). At his peak, he was likely at
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna


twelve-member committee evaluates the performances of a sportsperson at various International events like Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Asian Games, and Commonwealth Games. The committee later submits their recommendations to the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports for further approval. The first recipient of the award was Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, who was honoured for the performance in the year 1991–92. In 2001, sport shooter Abhinav Bindra, then aged 18, became the youngest recipient of the award. Usually conferred upon only one sportsperson in a year,
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Marina Brunello


Marina Brunello (born 16 June 1994) is an Italian chess player who holds the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM, 2016). In 2008 in Bratto Marina Brunello won the Italian Women's Chess Championship. She became the youngest ever Italian Women's Chess champion at the age of 14 years, 2 months and 15 days. In 2011 in Reggio Emilia she took 3rd place in international women chess tournament "Torneo di Capodanno" (tournament won Sopiko Guramishvili). Marina Brunello played for Italy in the Women's Chess Olympiads
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Hikaru Nakamura


the Kings Tournament in Medias (although Nakamura placed third of sixth among a cadre of top Grandmasters), Nakamura tweeted that he was focusing on the 2011 World Series of Poker, in which he played, although busted out on the second day. Kasparov, who had been training Nakamura at the time, publicly grumbled about his interest in poker. Hikaru has set several "youngest-ever" records in U.S. chess history, including: In an interview, Nakamura has stated that he probably has never read a chess book through
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Akshat Chandra


, at the age of 10, began working with his first professional coach, the Serbian GM Predrag Trajkovic, who worked with him for about 4 1/2 years until early 2014. Trajkovic exposed him to the typical Soviet style of chess, with its focus on positional understanding. Chandra is also an avid writer. He has documented his journey from a beginner to Grandmaster level on his personal website. He is also the youngest regular writer for the most visited chess media website in the world, Chessbase, and also contributes articles to
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Viswanathan Anand


Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former World Chess Champion. Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, thus becoming the first Asian to do so. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He then defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the World Chess Championship 2012 against Boris Gelfand. In the World Chess
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Daniel Rensch


He is the President of American Chess Events LLC and Vice-President of chess.com. Rensch earned his final IM norm at Susan Polgar's SPICE CUP by achieving a draw against then Grandmaster candidate Ray Robson, who went on to achieve 'youngest ever Grandmaster in the United States' 2009-2014. Rensch has been offering in-depth, educational chess analysis online since 2009. His well known "Rook Endgames: Beginner to Master series", "Isolated Queen Pawns", and "Pawn Structure 101" series are among
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Nihal Sarin


Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is a 15-year-old Indian Chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2610. He is currently the youngest player and third youngest player in history to reach a rating of 2600, accomplishing this feat at age 14. He is considered by some to be among the greatest talents in chess history. Nihal was the 2014 World Under-10 Champion, winning the title ahead of several talented peers in Durban, South Africa. In 2015, he came close to winning the Under-12 championship in Porto Carras
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List of world records in chess


world, with a rating a record 199 points above that of Henry Bird, the second-ranked player. Garry Kasparov was the world's highest-rated player FIDE's rating list for a record 255 months, a number that is well ahead of all other world number ones since the inception of the list. Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics. The youngest player to be awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE is Sergey
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