Who is the oldest and youngest Grand Master?

Youngest is Sergey Karjakin of the Ukraine. He's a year older than me, and has been a grandmaster for 7. :(

Are you 100% sure?

hmm.. nothing a quick bit of Googling won't unearth. As I have mentioned before, Viktor Korchnoi is likely the oldest active GM, and he still eats young GMs for lunch. Likely keeps him young, lol. As far as the youngest, I am looking up TWIC, as I think there has been a recent change.... I doubt the youngest GM is younger than age 11.... even the fellow above mentioned was 12 at the time :

Can you imagine that you may soon have to address the boy in this picture respectfully as "grandmaster"? 12-year-old Sergei Karjakin (learn to pronounce it now: car-yack-kin!) has just gained his second GM norm and looks poised to gain his title well before his 13th birth in January 2003. That would make him the only person in the world to become a grandmaster and second a world champion before reaching his teens!

This is courtesy Chessbase.com

Insofar as the dark haired Italian boy I saw ? Well, turns out he is actually Filipino Wesley So, confirmed by FIDE to be the world's youngest GM at the moment. This past April, he got his last norm in Dubai. He is 14 years old. Magnus Carlsen, for the record, was 13 when he became GM (as fas as I can tell).

People tend to make distinctions about the youngest GM vs. who became a GM at the youngest age... but hey, there you go.

Oh, and one other link you may want to look at : FIDE Ratings Toplist

amen to Korchnoi, Karjaking and So. I admire Korchnoi for maintaining his strenghth through all these years.

Thanks damien

in the top 100 FIDE rankings there is just one from the USA thats kind of sad anyway

SO who's the youngest female GM

I don't know

do you mean. Oldest and youngest to get the title? or just oldest There are a few in the 80s and 90s.

Larry Kaufman finally got the GM title at 61,62. HE got it by winning the senior world chess championship.

GM Andor Lilienthal turned 98 on May 5th this year.  He is probably the oldest living person with the grandmaster title.  Vassily Smyslov turned 88 in March.  Yuri Averbakh is 87.

Wow thats amazing 

Anish Giri is a Russian-Nepalese boy grandmaster who will turn 15 on June 28th making him a good eight months younger than Wesley So.  Hou Yifan is a Chinese girl with the grandmaster title who turned 15 in February, making her the youngest girl to currently hold the GM title.