GM Awonder Liang

Awonder Liang is an American grandmaster and the 2011 World U8 Champion. He’s well-known for being the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in a standard tournament game when at the age of 9 years, three months, and 20 days, he beat GM Larry Kaufman. Liang is also the second-youngest grandmaster in American history and one of the youngest chess grandmasters ever as of April 2021.

Best Game

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (20 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights Attack (14 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (13 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (13 games)

King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation (13 games)

Black Pieces

Réti Opening: King's Indian Attack (14 games)

Giuoco Piano Game: Main Line, Giuoco Pianissimo Variation (9 games)

Indian Game (9 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights, Mindeno, Exchange Line (9 games)

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (8 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Awonder Liang (2640) Stavroula Tsolakidou (2353)	1-0	44	2023
Awonder Liang (2640) Stavroula Tsolakidou	1-0	44	2023
Awonder Liang (2640) Stavroula Tsolakidou (2353)	1-0	44	2023
Awonder Liang (2640) Tianqi Wang (2398)	1-0	43	2023
Awonder Liang (2640) Tianqi Wang (2398)	1-0	43	2023
Awonder Liang (2643) Magnus Carlsen (2853)	0-1	54	2023
Awonder Liang (2643) Razvan Preotu (2475)	0-1	56	2023
Awonder Liang (2625) Carissa Yip (2416)	1-0	33	2022
Awonder Liang (2625) Pedro Espinosa (2130)	1-0	42	2022
Awonder Liang (2379) Read Samadov (2084)	1-0	40	2022

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