Pete Doggers
The news has been dominated lately by prodigies. After our reports on Tani Adewumi becoming a national master at 10 and 12-year-old IM Abhimanyu Mishra scoring his second GM norm, today it's the real deal. France has a new grandmaster, his name is Marc'Andria Maurizzi, and he is the youngest GM ever in that country.
Top 15 Youngest Chess Grandmasters
No. Fed Player Country Age
1 Sergey Karjakin Ukraine 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
2 Gukesh Dommaraju India 12 years, 7 months, 17 days
3 Javokhir Sindarov Uzbekistan 12 years, 10 months, 5 days
4 Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu India 12 years, 10 months, 13 days
5 Nodirbek Abdusattorov Uzbekistan 13 years, 1 month, 11 days
6 Parimarjan Negi India 13 years, 4 months, 22 days
7 Magnus Carlsen Norway 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
8 Wei Yi China 13 years, 8 months, 23 days
9 Raunak Sadhwani India 13 years, 9 months, 28 days
10 Bu Xiangzhi China 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
11 Samuel Sevian United States 13 years, 10 months, 27 days
12 Richard Rapport Hungary 13 years, 11 months, 6 days
13 Marc'Andria Maurizzi France 14 years, 0 months, 5 days
14 Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
15 Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine 14 years, 0 months, 17 days