Carissa Yip, a nine year old, has reach USCF rating of 2000, expert! She could break the record for master which I think is 12? I think she has been playing for two or three years. She plays blind folded chess as well. Just think a female Bobbie Fischer. Good Luck little girl!!
Carissa has great potential. The results have been mis-stated in the press, not surprisingly. She briefly went over the 2000 mark and has since slipped back a bit. She is playing alot and her rating will go up again soon. Although she doesn't seem pre-occupied with the record, she has about a year to catch Awonder Liang's record for reaching 2200 (he has currently slipped back below that level as well). 200+ points in a year is no piece of cake, but it is certainly doable - kids at lower levels make these kinds of jumps all the time. It was erroneously reported that Fischer did not reach the 2200 until he was 15. Completely false - as we know Fischer was the youngest grandmaster in history at 15.
Bobby F was not the youngest grandmaster in history. Judit Polgar is. She was younger by one month.
Wrong and wrong. Fischer was the youngest in history when he broke the record, Polgar was the youngest when she broke the record, but the current record holder is Sergey Karjakin, about 3 years younger than both of them when he became a GM.
Exactly. The interesting thing is the huge gap in years between Fischer and Polgar but the relatively shorter gaps between those following Polgar. Lends strong support to the ratings inflation enthusiasts.
I just got finished looking at the last 2.5 years of her tournaments. She's a solid class A player at the moment. She definately has been able to play in national & international tournaments. She played in last Novembers world youth championships, the girls under 10 section. I'm sure she will be in this years WYC also. She didn't have a rating going into that (fide, the only one used internationally) http://chess-results.com/tnr84654.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1&flag=30&wi=821 The results showed she performed at 1417. 5.5 out of 11 games. Finished ranked #64 out of 126 girls her own age. I think she will get to play in the same section this year. I'm sure she will do better this year, I think that was the first WYC she plyed in. I'm sure she will be playing a lot more of the important tournaments, she's already played some of them. We will see.