Chess Grandmasters and Chess Kids

Chess grandmasters started very young and learned chess at an early age. Some started when they were six years old and had chess teachers. That’s why some so-called Chess Kids have outstanding chess abilities.

Grandmaster (or GM) is the highest title a player can achieve and is awarded by the World Chess Federation FIDE that calculates the Elo ratings of a player to award the titles: FIDE Master, International Master, International Grandmaster, and women’s versions of those titles.

When you are young you can learn and accumulate a lot of knowledge much faster. But you need talent too and have to keep up playing and studying chess all the time.

Chess lessons by a Grandmaster

You need to be able to grasp chess ideas quickly and should have a good memory to memorize a lot of opening lines and tactical images to be able to reproduce them in the right situations. Your mind should be able to calculate tactical variations clearly without making a blunder.

The title of International Grandmaster was given officially by the FIDE first time in 1950. GM (Grandmaster), IM (International Master) and FM (Federal Master) are titles that can be achieved by men and women.

The number of grandmasters increased worldwide from 24 in 1950 to 88 in 1972 and today there are more than eighthundred chess grandmasters. This can be explained with the following development. The number of tournaments have increased worldwide and with that the chance to qualify.

The change of the political structure in the eastern countries made it possible for strong eastern players to play at tournaments abroad and use more qualification possibilities. In addition the technical development of computers, chess software and databases made it possible for every player to move to a higher level of playing strength and learn opening lines much faster.

The level of chess has increased in general as there is much more chess knowledge available. The average rating of all grandmasters together as a whole increases from year to year.

How to become a Chess Grandmaster

You need talent. It can be lesser or greater, but without talent you will not succeed. If talent is there, it can be developed. But if no talent is there, then there is nothing to train and to develop. Even fanatical learning of chess and playing lots of chess tournaments will not help. No chess-coach can bring talent into his pupil.

Chess Champions
Chess Matches in History

What is chess-talent? That’s hard to say. But a chess-coach will see it immediately if it is there. A talented person acquires chess knowledge quicker, applies it faster and is able to understand the fundamental concepts of chess. Talented kids are playing the moves quickly and are able to play a game blindfold without looking at the board.

Some interesting Chess Grandmasters are introduced here.

Name	GM/Year	Country
Anand, Viswanathan	1988	IND
Ashley, Maurice	1999	USA
Kasparov, Garry	1999	UKR
Topalov, Veselin	1992	BUL

Chess Kid

Amazing Chess Kids

There are some ingenius chess kids who are listed in the table below.

Nr	Name	GM/Year	Country	Years	Months	Days
1	Karjakin, Sergej	2002	UKR	12	7	0
2	Negi, Parimarjan	2006	IND	13	4	22
3	Carlsen, Magnus	2004	NOR	13	3	27
4	Xiangzhi, Bu	1999	CHN	13	10	13
5	Radjabov, Teimour	2001	AZE	14	0	14
6	Ponomaryov, Ruslan	1997	UKR	14	0	17
7	So, Wesley	2007	PHI	14	1	28
8	Bacrot, Etienne	1997	FRA	14	2	0
9	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2005	FRA	14	4	0
10	Leko, Peter	1994	HUN	14	4	22
11	Yifan, Hou	2008	CHN	14	6	2
12	Kuzubov, Yuri	2004	UKR	14	7	12
13	Ngoc Truong Son, Nguyen	2004	VIE	14	10	0
14	Caruana, Fabiano	2007	ITA	14	11	20
15	Koneru, Humpy	2002	IND	15	1	27
16	Nakamura, Hikaru	2003	USA	15	2	19
17	Harikrishna, Pentala	2001	IND	15	3	5
18	Polgar, Judit	1991	HUN	15	4	28
19	Ramirez, Alejandro	2003	CRI	15	5	14
20	Fischer, Robert James	1958	USA	15	6	1
21	Reshevsky, Samuel	no FIDE	POL	no FIDE	no FIDE	no FIDE
22	Capablanca, José Raúl	no FIDE	CUBA	no FIDE	no FIDE	no FIDE
23	Morphy, Paul	no FIDE	USA	no FIDE	no FIDE	no FIDE

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