7th youngest

[Jack Maguire]

Here's some interesting triva and likely a good bar bet from FIDE's August list of 45 elite (i.e. 2700 ) GMs. Albeit Carlsen is the youngest of the half dozen GMs on that list born in 1990 (a VERY GOOD year for chess births!), there are six other GMS on said list younger than Carslen. They would be, from oldest to youngest, Le Quang Liem (13/3/91), Fabiano Caruana ((30/7/92), Ding Liren (24/10/92), Wesley So (9/10/93), Anish Giri (28/6/94), and Richard Rapport (25/3/96).

[Nathan Zeap]

Re: 7th youngest

at some point in the very near future these youngsters will be bunched up in the top 10 along with top 10 GMs Karjakin who is only 24 and Vachier-Lagrave who is as old as Carlsen and Nakamura who at 26 will be the "old twenty something" of the group :) Methinks Giri and So will be in the top ten within a year's time or even earlier The future of chess is indeed exciting.

[Jack Maguire]

Re: 7th youngest

Here's Daniel King's "quick chat" (6:06) in Tromso with Anish Giri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1wj4CCnkGM

[Jack Maguire]

Re: 7th youngest

Anish Giri, with his win today in the ECCC 2014, has entered the live rating Top 10 for the very first time in his young chess career.

http://www.top40chess.com/

[Hans Jung]

Re: 7th youngest

Two of them (Le Quang Liem and Wesley So) are at Webster University with Susan Polgar. Do you think she can recruit any of the others?

[Jack Maguire]

Re: 7th youngest

Two of them (Le Quang Liem and Wesley So) are at Webster University with Susan Polgar. Do you think she can recruit any of the others?

Illya Nyzhnyk, while not yet on that list since he's 'only' rated 2632, turns 18 today and I see from his chessgames.com bio that he's also heading to Webster.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=95929

Of course the biggest catch would be my fave, the 18-year-old Richard Rapport (2720.2). You would think Susan would have the inside track there given the Hungarian connection. But perhaps Richard has no interest in university (:

[Jack Maguire]

Re: 7th youngest

at some point in the very near future these youngsters will be bunched up in the top 10 along with top 10 GMs Karjakin who is only 24 and Vachier-Lagrave who is as old as Carlsen and Nakamura who at 26 will be the "old twenty something" of the group :) Methinks Giri and So will be in the top ten within a year's time or even earlier The future of chess is indeed exciting.

Spot on with your "even earlier", Nathan. The median age of the top ten is now 25, with Nakamura being the 5th oldest at 26 and Karjakin the 6th at 24 (Magnus Carlsen will also turn 24 at the end of November).

http://top40chess.com/

Tangentially, I duly note that both Giri and Rapport were higher rated at 18 (and Rapport has another 5 plus months of still being 18) than Caruana. I echo your sentiments about "The future of chess is indeed exciting".