China Teen Wei Yi Now Current Youngest Chess GM in the World (Updated)

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The official website of the Reykjavik Chess Open 2013 has reported that Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi has picked up his 3rd GM norm at the event with one round to go for the end of the tournament. Since Wei Yi's rating is already over 2500, the Chinese teenager now is the official current youngest GM of the world. He is the fourth youngest in history behind Sergey Karjakin of Russia, Parimarjan Negi of India and the current world #1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway.




Youngest Ever Grandmasters (source: Wikipedia)

#	Name	Country	Age
1	Sergey Karjakin	Russia	12 years, 7 months, 0 days
2	Parimarjan Negi	India	13 years, 4 months, 22 days
3	Magnus Carlsen	Norway	13 years, 4 months, 27 days
4	Wei Yi	China	13 years, 8 months, 23 days
5	Bu Xiangzhi	China	13 years, 10 months, 13 days
6	Richárd Rapport	Hungary	13 years, 11 months, 6 days
7	T Radjabov	Azerbaijan	14 years, 0 months, 14 days
8	R Ponomariov	Ukraine	14 years, 0 months, 17 days
9	Wesley So	Philippines	14 years, 1 month, 28 days
10	Étienne Bacrot	France	14 years, 2 months, 0 days
11	Jorge Cori	Peru	14 years, 2 months
12	Illya Nyzhnyk	Ukraine	14 years, 3 months, 2 days
13	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	14 years, 4 months
14	Péter Lékó	Hungary	14 years, 4 months, 22 days
15	Hou Yifan	China	14 years, 6 months, 16 days
16	Anish Giri	Netherlands	14 years, 7 months, 2 days
17	Yuriy Kuzubov	Ukraine	14 years, 7 months, 12 days
18	Dariusz Swiercz	Poland	14 years, 7 months, 29 days
19	NN Truong Son	Vietnam	14 years, 10 months
20	Daniil Dubov	Russia	14 years, 11 months, 14 days
21	Ray Robson	US	14 years, 11 months, 16 days
22	Fabiano Caruana	Italy	14 years, 11 months, 20 days

Check out this nice game with Chess King played by the Chinese Grandmaster recently at the Reykjavik Chess Open 2013.

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