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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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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