Chess Prodigies and Early Grandmasters
January 24, 2016
I have a book by Evgeniy Gik entitled Šachmatnye vunderkindy (2006). It has games of the great chess prodigies.
Those listed are:
1. Capablanca, Jose Raul - Cuba
2. Reshevsky, Samuel - USA
3. Spassky, Boris - Russia
4. Fischer, Robert - USA
5. Meking, Enrique - Brazil
6. Kasparov, Garry - Russia
7. Short, Nigel - England
8. Kamsky, Gata - USA
9. Polgar, Judit - Hungary
10. Leko, Peter - Hungary
11. Bacrot, Etienne - France
12. Ponomariov, Ruslan - Ukraine
13. Bu Xiangzhi - China
14. Karjakin, Sergey – Ukraine
Usually, a chess prodigy is considered a child who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess. There are many of these in history, who never went on to achieve anything in the game.
Another measure of chess prodigies is the age when they achieved the grandmaster title (not when they were officially awarded it) and by general agreement, that age is 15 years or younger.
This gives us an up-to-date list:
1. Karjakin, Sergey – Ukraine
2. Negi, Parimarjan – India
3. Carlsen, Magnus – Norway
4. Wei Yi – China
5. Bu Xiangzhi – China
6. Sevian, Samuel – USA
7. Rapport, Richard – Hungary
8. Radjabov, Teimour – Azerbaijan
9. Ponomariov, Ruslan - Ukraine
10. So, Wesley – Philippines
11. Bacrot, Etienne – France
12. Nyzhnyk, Illya – Ukraine
13. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime – France
14. Leko, Peter – Hungary
15. Cori, Jorge – Peru
16. Hou Yifan – China
17. Xiong, Jeffery – USA
18. Giri, Anish – Russia
19. Kuzubov, Yuriy – Ukraine
20. Swiercz, Dariusz – Poland
21. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son – Vietnam
22. Dubov, Daniil – Russia
23. Robson, Ray – USA
24. Caruana, Fabiano – Italy
25. Yu Yangyi - China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy
This list should be up-to-date but I welcome any corrections or additions.
January 24, 2016
I have a book by Evgeniy Gik entitled Šachmatnye vunderkindy (2006). It has games of the great chess prodigies.
Those listed are:
1. Capablanca, Jose Raul - Cuba
2. Reshevsky, Samuel - USA
3. Spassky, Boris - Russia
4. Fischer, Robert - USA
5. Meking, Enrique - Brazil
6. Kasparov, Garry - Russia
7. Short, Nigel - England
8. Kamsky, Gata - USA
9. Polgar, Judit - Hungary
10. Leko, Peter - Hungary
11. Bacrot, Etienne - France
12. Ponomariov, Ruslan - Ukraine
13. Bu Xiangzhi - China
14. Karjakin, Sergey – Ukraine
Usually, a chess prodigy is considered a child who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess. There are many of these in history, who never went on to achieve anything in the game.
Another measure of chess prodigies is the age when they achieved the grandmaster title (not when they were officially awarded it) and by general agreement, that age is 15 years or younger.
This gives us an up-to-date list:
1. Karjakin, Sergey – Ukraine
2. Negi, Parimarjan – India
3. Carlsen, Magnus – Norway
4. Wei Yi – China
5. Bu Xiangzhi – China
6. Sevian, Samuel – USA
7. Rapport, Richard – Hungary
8. Radjabov, Teimour – Azerbaijan
9. Ponomariov, Ruslan - Ukraine
10. So, Wesley – Philippines
11. Bacrot, Etienne – France
12. Nyzhnyk, Illya – Ukraine
13. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime – France
14. Leko, Peter – Hungary
15. Cori, Jorge – Peru
16. Hou Yifan – China
17. Xiong, Jeffery – USA
18. Giri, Anish – Russia
19. Kuzubov, Yuriy – Ukraine
20. Swiercz, Dariusz – Poland
21. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son – Vietnam
22. Dubov, Daniil – Russia
23. Robson, Ray – USA
24. Caruana, Fabiano – Italy
25. Yu Yangyi - China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy
This list should be up-to-date but I welcome any corrections or additions.
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