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      >> List of Chess Prodigies

    List of Chess Prodigies


    1.  Michael Adams became an International Master at 15 and turned grandmaster at 17
    2.  Viswanathan Anand became India's first International Grandmaster at 18 and went on to      become the World Chess Champion.
    3.  Etienne Bacrot
    4.  Mark Bluvshtein became an International Master at 13 and a grandmaster at 16
    5.  José Raúl Capablanca, 1888-1942, learned chess at the age of four, defeated his country's            chess champion in a match when he was 13, and eventually became world champion.
    6.  Magnus Carlsen became the world's youngest GM in April 2004 (the second youngest in the           history of the game)
    7.  Bobby Fischer became US Champion at the age of 15 and went on to become world       champion.
    8.  Kateryna Lahno
    9.  Pentala Harikrishna became a grandmaster at 15
    10. Koneru Humpy is said to be the youngest female Grandmaster ever, but this is debated
    11. Gata Kamsky had an Elo rating of 2650 at the age of 16
    12. Sergey Karjakin, at the age of 12 years and 7 months he became the youngest      grandmaster        ever. He was the official second (helper) of fellow Ukrainian Ruslan      Ponomariov, during the       2002 FIDE World championship.
    13. Anatoly Karpov became a grandmaster at 18 and went on to become world champion.
    14. Garry Kasparov became a grandmaster at 17 and went on to become the youngest ever        world champion.
    15. Joel Lautier
    16. Péter Lékó was once the world's youngest ever Grandmaster
    17. Luke McShane won the World Under-10 Championship at the age of eight
    18. Paul Morphy, 1837-1884 who at the age of twelve beat Johann Löwenthal 3-0. (See page on        Paul Morphy)
    19. Hikaru Nakamura became a GM at 15 and US chess champion at 16
    20. Gastón Needleman
    21. Parimarjan Negi the youngest International Master in 2005.
    22. Judit Polgar
    23. Ruslan Ponomariov, the FIDE World Champion during 2002-2004
    24. Teimour Radjabov, became the youngest GM at the age of 14 years, until Karjakin broke  his        record.
    25. Samuel Reshevsky, a Polish boy, learned the rules at the age of 4, and gave simultaneous        exhibitions at the age of six.
    26. Nigel Short finished joint-first in the British Championship at the age of 14
    27. Boris Spassky became an International Grandmaster at 18 and went on to become world        champion.
    28. Aston Taminsyah won world school chess U-8 Championship at 7+
    29. Murugan Thiruchelvam
    30. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son was world champion under ten in 2000
    31. Josh Waitzkin
    32. Peter Winston