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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. 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
# Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 13 years, 3 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 without Title}
# Péter Lékó (HUN) 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
# Yuriy Kuzubov (UKR) 14 years, 7 months, 12 days {Link without Title}
# 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

LIST OF CHESS PRODIGIES

''In alphabetical order:''

Michael Adams became an International Master at 15 and a grandmaster at 17

Viswanathan Anand became India's first International Grandmaster at 18 and went on to become the FIDE World Chess Champion

Etienne Bacrot

Mark Bluvshtein became an International Master at 13 and a grandmaster at 16

José Raúl Capablanca , 1888 - 1942 , learned chess at the age of four, beat his country's chess champion in a match when he was 12, and eventually became world champion

Magnus Carlsen became the world's youngest GM in April 2004 (the second youngest in the history of the game)

Anya Corke

Bobby Fischer became US Champion at the age of 14 and went on to become world champion

Kateryna Lahno

Pentala Harikrishna became a grandmaster at 15

Koneru Humpy is said to be the youngest female Grandmaster ever, but this is debated

Gata Kamsky had an Elo Rating of 2650 at the age of 16

Sergey Karjakin , became the youngest grandmaster ever at the age of 12 years and 7 months, and was the official second (helper) of fellow Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov, during the 2002 FIDE World championship

Anatoly Karpov became a grandmaster at 18 and went on to become world champion

Garry Kasparov became a grandmaster at 17 and went on to become the youngest ever world champion

Joel Lautier

Péter Lékó was once the world's youngest ever Grandmaster

Luke McShane won the World Under-10 Championship at the age of eight

Paul Morphy , 1837 - 1884 , beat Johann Löwenthal 3-0 at age 12

Hikaru Nakamura became a GM at 15 and US chess champion at 16

Gastón Needleman

Parimarjan Negi , the youngest International Master in 2005

Judit Polgar

Ruslan Ponomariov , the FIDE World Champion during 2002 – 2004

Teimour Radjabov , became the youngest GM at the age of 14 years, until Karjakin broke his record

Samuel Reshevsky , learned the rules at the age of 4, and gave Simultaneous Exhibition s at the age of six

Nigel Short finished joint-first in the British Championship at the age of 14

Boris Spassky became an International Grandmaster at 18 and went on to become world champion

Aston Taminsyah won world school chess U-8 Championship at 7+

Murugan Thiruchelvam

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son was world champion under ten in 2000

Josh Waitzkin

Peter Winston

''See also:'' List Of Chess Players , List Of Chess World Championship Matches .

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