Chess prodigy
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Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults on equal ground; it is thus one of the few skills in which true child prodigies exist. Expectations can be high for chess prodigies; while some become World Champions, others fail to make progress in adulthood.
Recently, there has been a tendency for chess players to gain the International Grandmaster title earlier and earlier in their lives. The reason for this is the development of chess on the Internet, which gives children unlimited opportunities to play against top level opponents.[[Citing sources citation needed]] Another is that more young children compete in national and international chess tournaments.
In 2002, twelve-year-old Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin became the youngest Grandmaster ever. He is the latest of a long line of chess prodigies that have been awarded this title.
List of youngest grandmasters
This is a list of the youngest players to become Grandmasters. The age listed is the age on which they received their third and final Grandmaster norm. This is not equal to the age at which they officially became Grandmasters, because GM titles can only be awarded at FIDE congresses.
- Sergey Karjakin (UKR) 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
- Parimarjan Negi (IND) 13 years, 4 months ,22 days
- Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
- Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) 13 years, 10 months,13 days
- Teimour Radjabov (AZE) 14 years, 0 months,14 days
- Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) 14 years, 0 months,17 days
- Etienne Bacrot (FRA) 14 years, 2 months,0 days
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA) 14 years, 4 months [link]
- Péter Lékó (HUN) 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
- Yuriy Kuzubov (UKR) 14 years, 7 months, 12 days [link]
- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) 14 years, 10 months
- Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 15 years, 2 months, 19 days
- Pentala Harikrishna (IND) 15 years, 3 months, 5 days
- Koneru Humpy (IND) 15 years, 4 months, 28 days
- Judit Polgar (HUN) 15 years, 4 months, 28 days
- Alejandro Ramirez (CRC) 15 years, 5 months, 14 days
- Bobby Fischer (USA) 15 years, 6 months, 1 day
- Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP) 16 years, 9 months, 0 days
- Garry Kasparov (RUS) 16 years, 11 months, 29 days
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