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Youngest Grandmasters - From the Susan Polgar website
Youngest Grandmasters - From the Susan Polgar website
1. Sergey Karjakin 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
2. Parimarjan Negi 13 years, 4 months, 22 days
3. Magnus Carlsen 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
4. Bu Xiangzhi 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
5. Teimour Radjabov 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
6. Ruslan Ponomariov 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
7. Wesley So 14 years, 1 month, 28 days
8. Etienne Bacrot 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 14 years, 4 months
10. Péter Lékó 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
11. Hou Yifan 14 years, 6 months, 16 days
12. Anish Giri 14 years, 7 months, 2 days
13. Yuriy Kuzubov 14 years, 7 months, 12 days
14. Dariusz Swiercz 14 years, 7 months, 29 days
15. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 14 years, 10 months
16. Ray Robson 14 Years 11 Months 16 days
17. Fabiano Caruana 14 years, 11 months, 20 days
18. Humpy Koneru 15 years, 1 month, 27 days
19. Hikaru Nakamura 15 years, 2 months, 19 days
20. Pentala Harikrishna 15 years, 3 months, 5 days
From the Scarborough CC newsletter, Issue # 11-2, September 15, 2009:
On the trivia question of who was the oldest person to ever receive the GM title, we have found another reference to it being Janis Klovans. There is a list, Oldest in Chess by Bill Wall, at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/old.htm ( take a look – his list is fascinating ) . Unfortunately he does not give the source for his “ fact “. But at the bottom of his list, he has:
Enrico Paoli (1908-2005) was the oldest active chess player in the world as of 2005. He was playing chess at the age of 97. He was awarded an honorary GM title in 1996 at the age of 88.
Wikipedia confirms Bill’s statement:
Enrico Paoli (January 13, 1908–December 15, 2005), was an Italian chess master. He was born in Trieste, Italy, and learned chess when he was nine years old. He won his last Italian Championship at age 60, and organized the famous Reggio Emilia chess tournament. He beat Soviet GM Alexander Kotov with the black pieces in Venice in 1950, but missed receiving the Grandmaster title by only half a point at a tournament in 1969. He was awarded the title honoris causa in 1996 by FIDE.
So, we have decided that Rick’s answer was incorrect, to some degree, and to accept Bill Wall’s statement that Paoli only received an “ honorary “ GM title – we had wanted the person who had achieved a normal GM title. And we have decided that that would be Janis Klovans, as answered by the winner 2 Issues ago, Michael Perez. Congratulations Michael!
So, the oldest person to become a grandmaster seems to be Janis Klovans (1933- ). He became GM in 1997 at the age of 62 after he won the senior world championship. His title was an automatic result of his championship.
Thank you guys for your research. Now how about GM titles achieved through regular norms (as opposed to World Senior Champions) ? Who are the oldest to have done it ? I don't want to wait until I am eligible to the World senior championship...
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