Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults on equal ground; it is thus one of the few skills in which true child prodigies exist. The chess world always looks with big expectations to these prodigies. Some of them have become World Champions, others have failed to make progress in their adulthood.

List of youngest grandmasters

This is a list of the youngest players to become Grandmasters. The age listed is the age on which they received their third and final Grandmaster norm. This is not equal to the age at which they officially became Grandmasters, because GM titles can only be awarded at FIDE congresses.

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• Sergey Karjakin 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
• Magnus Carlsen 13 years, 3 months, 27 days
• Bu Xiangzhi 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
• Teimour Radjabov 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
• Ruslan Ponomariov 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
• Etienne Bacrot 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
• Péter Lékó 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
• Hikaru Nakamura 15 years, 2 months, 19 days
• Koneru Humpy 15 years, 4 months, 28 days
• Judit Polgar 15 years, 4 months, 28 days
• Bobby Fischer 15 years, 6 months, 1 day