Is Carissa Yip the next Magnus

Carissa Yip is the youngest chess expert in the US at just nine years old. She says that she wants to become a master next year. And win the world championship. This raises the question. Is she the next Magnus. Could she beat Magnus in the future and become the world champion?

Possibly, if she works hard enough :)

She was the youngest female chess expert in the US. Not the best for her age, so probably not.

But she seems fun and like she enjoys the game so good look to her.

Awonder Liang is better than her by far and he is 9

She finished 22nd at the recent World Youth Chess Championship 2013 / Girls U10 at the UAE, which means that she is still miles away from being the best girl at her age. Of course noone can predict with some certainty for such a young player. Oh, by the way she is ten-something years old (born 2003).

http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=90868&t=

Apparently only one of these standings is correct. I have heard that the organization ay the UAE was bad, but sending to FIDE wrong standings is not so likely.

No, she is not the next magnus. I will take your money on that chance any day.

Ah, OK, now I see that the FIDE standings list is updated just up to round ten. And I would not expect at a girls U-10 the first four boards ending as draws...

An expert at 9 is great, but not so good as to be thinking world champion yet.  Wait to see where she is in 5-6 years.  If she's 2600+ then we're talking potential Carlsen beater.

I am quite confident she could wipe me off the board and I wish her the best. I hope she doesn't get pressured into just playing chess though...

that's cool; nothing wrong with being a chess master and a good human being as well. some kids just got it

no you're looking only at fide rated games. some of the games were against players without fide ratings(this is common at youth events, doesn't mean opponents are weak, just that they don't play fide games).  you need to look at the full crosstable as posted on the FIDE website or on chessresults.com.

http://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=90868

It would be easier to get comparisons in some years, if she plays more in FIDE rated events, that way we can check her evolution against other juniors around the world.

Now her FIDE rating is 1677, but it should be easily higher than 1900 (according to her USCF rating of 2024).

people don't really play fide games that much in the US.  especially kids.

I was thinking that since she is the U.S. Wonder Girl, she could get invitations or funding to travel to tournaments in other countries.

funding for chess in the US, haha now that's funny