Top Junior U20 Chess Players in the World

GM Wei Yi 2754 | #7

O GM chinês Wei Yi é um jogador de elite e um dos maiores prodígios da história do xadrez. Aos 15 anos, ele quebrou o recorde do GM Magnus Carlsen de jogador mais jovem a alcançar o rating de 2700, marca que Wei ainda detém. Dois anos antes, tornou-se o quarto...

GM Arjun Erigaisi 2751 | #10

Arjun Erigaisi é um grande mestre indiano, um dos quatro grandes jogadores indianos nascidos entre 2003 e 2006 — os outros são os GMs Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa R e Nihal Sarin — que deram saltos significativos rumo à elite mundial no período de 2022-23. Em outubro...

GM Javokhir Sindarov

O GM Javokhir Sindarov é um grande mestre e candidato ao campeonato mundial do Uzbequistão. Um dos grandes mestres mais jovens da história, em 2018 ele conquistou o título de GM aos 12 anos, 10 meses e 5 dias. Ele é um dos apenas cinco jogadores a obter o título...

GM Gukesh Dommaraju 2732 | #14

O nome completo do jogador é Gukesh Dommaraju, e ele confirmou ao Chess.com que prefere ser chamado pelo primeiro nome, Gukesh. O GM indiano Gukesh Dommaraju é o atual campeão mundial de xadrez, derrotando o GM Ding Liren no Campeonato Mundial da FIDE em 12 de dezembro de 2024....

GM Andrey Esipenko 2698 | #30

Andrey Esipenko é um grande mestre russo. Ele venceu o Campeonato Europeu Sub-10 de Xadrez em 2012. Em 2017, conquistou o Campeonato Europeu Sub-16 e o Campeonato Mundial Sub-16. No Tata Steel de 2021, aos 18 anos, derrotou o campeão mundial Magnus Carlsen em seu primeiro confronto, tornando-se...

GM Matthias Bluebaum 2695 | #32

Matthias Bluebaum é um grande mestre alemão, campeão europeu de 2022 e campeão alemão de 2020. No início de sua carreira, obteve várias colocações entre os dez primeiros em torneios importantes, incluindo o Campeonato Alemão Sub-18...

GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus 2687 | #35

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is a Turkish chess grandmaster, one of the youngest grandmasters ever, and the youngest player ever to reach a 2600 FIDE rating. Erdogmus won the U-8 European Chess Championship in 2019, a year before he had to stop playing over-the-board chess due to the COVID-19 pandemic....

GM Pranav Venkatesh

The name Venkatesh is his father's name and the player should be referred to by his name, Pranav. GM Pranav Venkatesh, also known as Buddy Pranav, is an Indian chess grandmaster and one of the youngest grandmasters in the world. Pranav earned the title in 2022 after securing his third norm at the 2022...

GM Volodar Murzin

Volodar Murzin is a Russian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He is from Nizhny Tagil, a town 125 km north of Yekaterinburg, Russia but now lives in Khimki, in the Moscow region. He is the 2018 European U12 champion. In December 2024, Murzin won the World Rapid Championship...

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 Ediz Gurel

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GM Pranesh M

The player should be referred to by the given name, Pranesh.

GM Aleksey Grebnev

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 Aditya Mittal 2617 | #96

The name Mittal is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Aditya.

GM Marc'Andria Maurizzi

Marc'Andria Maurizzi was born on May 16, 2007, in Bastia, France. In 2019, he won the French junior championship for players under 12 years old. In July of that year, he secured the IM title at age 12 years and two months. He scored his first two GM norms in Catalonia. In December 2020, Maurizzi placed...

GM Christopher Yoo 2607 | #108

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...

GM Denis Lazavik

Denis Lazavik é um grande mestre da Bielorrússia e um participante no Speed Chess Championship Junior de 2021. Nascido em 2006, ele conquistou o título de Mestre Internacional em 2021 e o título de Grande Mestre em 2022. Em novembro de 2023, ele tinha um rating FIDE clássico...

GM Denis Lazavik

Denis Lazavik is a grandmaster from Belarus and a participant in the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship. Born in 2006, he earned his IM title in 2021 and his GM title in 2022. He is rated 2560 FIDE at standard time controls as of November 2023, while his peak Chess.com blitz rating as of the same...

GM Miguel Illescas Cordoba

Miguel Illescas Cordoba is a Spanish Grandmaster.

GM Ihor Samunenkov

GM Ihor Samunenkov is a Ukrainian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at 14 years old, the 41st player to earn the title before age 15. He was the world under-12 champion in 2021.

GM Bardiya Daneshvar

GM Bardiya Daneshvar is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He won the Iranian Chess Championship in 2022 and became a grandmaster in 2023.

GM Pranav Anand

The name Anand is his father's name, and the player should be referred to by his name, Pranav.

GM Ivan Zemlyanskii 2592 | #129

GM Bharath Subramaniyam

GM Bharath Subramaniyam is an Indian chess grandmaster. He earned the title in 2022 at the age of 14. The player should be referred to by his given name, Bharath.