Is Carissa Yip the next Magnus

She goes to my club. She is good, but she is no Magnus Carlsen.

She plays 1. e4 openings well, but has a poor understand of the Queen's Gambit and Nimzo-Indian.

She mostly plays against 1900's. She doesn't do as well against 2000+ rated opponents.

The next Magnus Carlsen?!  Could be!  Carissa just broke the USCF record as the youngest female to achieve a master rating!  Congratulations Carissa!  She's not just a great player, but a great kid as well!  (She plays at my club - the Wachusett Chess Club in Fitchburg, Massachusetts).

Alice Wells donut think that Carissa Yip can be the next Magnus Carlsen because Carissa Yip's name is not Magnus Carlsen! 

Carissa is very gud XD

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Carlsen when not yet 13½:

Yip when past 13½:

No Lol.  

They are definitely good chess players and probably if she works really hard she can be really good. I mean anything is possible, take Akshat Chandra for example.

Bumping a very old thread, but with new information.....

Okay, so Carissa may not be the next Magnus, but on the latest FIDE September Rating List, she is now rated 2425 ELO, which makes her the #1 rated woman player in the USA.  (#41 in the World, #5 Junior Girl world wide).  And she doesn't turn 16 until next month.

Carissa will be playing in the 2020 Cairns Cup, next month, in St Louis.  It's a ten player, all woman, event that includes current World Ch (as of today!) Ju Wenjun, plus Humpy Koneru, Lagno, Mariya Muzychuk and others.  Carissa, is the only non-GM in the field and the lowest rated, but she is not out-classed -- based on her play from last summer.  (At last word, Magnus will NOT be playing.   )