Top Chess Players in United States

GM Hikaru Nakamura 2792 | #2

Hikaru Nakamura nasceu em 7 de dezembro de 1987 em Hirakata, Japão. Sua família se mudou para os Estados Unidos quando Hikaru tinha apenas dois anos e a bandeira americana é a única bandeira nacional que ele conheceu como jogador de xadrez. Nakamura é um dos melhores...

GM Fabiano Caruana 2788 | #3

O menino-maravilha que quebrou o recorde de Hikaru Nakamura do mais jovem grande mestre de sempre, Fabiano Caruana escalou a montanha do xadrez e alcançou o pico. Este jovem Grande Mestre está classificado como o número 2 mundial e venceu numerosos torneios na sua...

GM Wesley So 2754 | #8

Wesley So é um super grande mestre filipino-americano e um dos melhores jogadores do mundo. Ele se destacou desde muito jovem como uma criança prodígio, e aos 9 anos começou a competir em torneios. Aos 14, ele se tornou o nono GM mais jovem da história, e aos 15 ele...

GM Hans Niemann

Hans Niemann é um grande mestre e um streamer de xadrez americano. Niemann subiu rapidamente no ranking do xadrez, ganhando o título de Mestre FIDE em 2016, apenas quatro anos após seu primeiro torneio valendo rating, onde ganhou um rating provisório dos EUA de apenas 1122....

GM Leinier Dominguez Perez 2732 | #16

Leinier Dominguez Perez is a Cuban-American grandmaster who has been a top-10 player in the world and usually sits in the top 15. Born in Havana in 1983, he earned his GM title in 2001, won his first of five Cuban Chess Championships in 2002, and reached a 2700 rating in 2008. Dominguez was also Cuban...

GM Levon Aronian 2724 | #21

Levon Aronian é um super grande mestre armênio (que em breve jogará pelos EUA) que faz parte da elite mundial há muitos anos. Ele entrou pela primeira vez no top 20 em 2005 e nunca mais saiu deste grupo seleto. Na maior parte desses mais de 15 anos, ele ficou entre os 10 primeiros. Nos...

GM Awonder Liang 2704 | #31

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...

GM Sam Sevian 2696 | #33

Samuel Sevian is an American grandmaster who gained notoriety as a chess prodigy. In 2014, he became the youngest ever-American to earn his GM title at 13 years, 10 months, and 27 days—and still retains a top spot on the list of the youngest chess grandmasters overall. He’s also the youngest...

GM Jeffery Xiong 2656 | #51

American GM Jeffery Xiong has completed an impressive career as an elite junior chess player. For starters, he’s the third-youngest U.S. player to qualify for the grandmaster title. His array of accomplishments spans winning the world under-10 championship in 2010, taking the world junior championship...

GM Ray Robson 2653 | #54

Ray Robson is an American grandmaster from Guam who had one of the country’s most successful youth careers, achieving his GM norms and 2500 rating in 2009 when he was still just 14 years old. As an adult, Robson’s tournament highlights include the 2015 U.S. Championship, where he finished...

GM Samuel Shankland 2647 | #60

Samuel L. "Sam" Shankland nasceu em 1 de outubro de 1991 em Berkeley, Califórnia. Ele tem representado o seu país durante toda a sua carreira enxadrística, algo relativamente raro entre os grandes mestres americanos dos últimos 40 anos. Conquista dos Títulos de MI...

GM Grigoriy Oparin 2643 | #66

Grigoriy Oparin is a Russian chess player who earned his grandmaster title in 2013. He was Russia's 2014 junior champion. Oparin nearly qualified for the 2022 Candidates Tournament by tying GM Fabiano Caruana for second place at the 2021 Riga Grand Swiss. However, he finished in third place because...

GM Abhimanyu Mishra

O IM Abhimanyu "Abhi" Mishra é um enxadrista prodígio americano. Em junho de 2021, Mishra obteve a terceira norma exigida para se tornar um grande mestre. Com seu rating FIDE já acima de 2500, ele se tornou o mais jovem grande mestre da história com apenas 12 anos, quatro...

GM Andy Woodward 2635 | #76

IM Andy Woodward is a chess grandmaster from the United States. He earned his IM title in 2022 at the age of 12. On January 30, 2024, he earned his third and final grandmaster norm later becoming one of the youngest GMs in history after FIDE granted him the title at the end of July, 2024. Woodward...

GM Mikhail Al Antipov

GM Mikhail Antipov is an America chess grandmaster who won the 2026 Saint Louis Masters.

GM Christopher Yoo 2607 | #110

Christopher Yoo is an American grandmaster and the 2020 U.S. Cadet (U16) Champion. He won that title with an undefeated performance, eclipsing the field by two and a half points. The same year, the 13-year-old finished in fifth place (out of 10) at the U.S. Junior (U21) Championship. Yoo became the...

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GM Andrew Z Hong 2592 | #133

Andrew Hong is an American chess player who earned his grandmaster title in 2021. In 2022, he was a participant in both the U.S. Junior Chess Championship and the Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship.

GM Dariusz Swiercz 2579 | #148

GM Dariusz Swiercz is a Polish-born American chess player who began playing for the United States in 2018. He learned chess at age three and became a grandmaster in 2009 at the age of just 14, making him one of the 30 youngest in history to attain the title and the youngest ever from Poland. His excellent...

GM John M Burke

GM John M. Burke was the 2020 U.S. Junior Chess Champion and a participant in the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship. He became a grandmaster in 2018 and was the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2600 FIDE.

GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista

Lazaro Bruzon Batista is a Cuban-American grandmaster who switched federations to the United States in 2020. He was World Junior Champion in 2000 and reached the world #26 rating in 2005. Bruzon, a participant in the 2021 U.S. Championship, reached a peak rating of 2717 in 2012.

GM Varuzhan Akobian

Varuzhan Akobian is an Armenian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Andrew Tang 2551 | #190

Andrew Tang is an American grandmaster who earned that title in 2017 at the age of 17. Known as "Penguin GM," he is one of the best bullet chess players in the world. Along with GM Hikaru Nakamura, Tang is one of the few players to have achieved a Chess.com bullet rating of 3500. He streams on Twitch...

GM Vladimir Akopian 2551 | #190

Vladimir Akopian is an Armenian-American grandmaster. As a young player, Akopian enjoyed great success by winning the U16 World Youth Chess Championship in 1986 and the U18 World Youth Chess Championship two years later. In 1999, Akopian surprised by reaching the final of the FIDE Knockout World Championship....

GM Kirk Ghazarian