Best young players ever.

This profile got me thinking: http://www.redhotpawn.com/profile/playerprofile.php?uid=640813

If somebody not even shaving yet can achieve a correspondance rating of 2000, there must be kids out there, somewhere, pushing GM level OTB.

Can anybody name some of the best teenage players in history?

Bobby Fischer

Originally posted by DR85
This profile got me thinking: http://www.redhotpawn.com/profile/playerprofile.php?uid=640813

If somebody not even shaving yet can achieve a correspondance rating of 2000, there must be kids out there, somewhere, pushing GM level OTB.

Can anybody name some of the best teenage players in history?

Originally posted by DR85
This profile got me thinking: http://www.redhotpawn.com/profile/playerprofile.php?uid=640813

If somebody not even shaving yet can achieve a correspondance rating of 2000, there must be kids out there, somewhere, pushing GM level OTB.

Can anybody name some of the best teenage players in history?

Watch Anish Giri - there's a good chance he will be world champ some day. Of the current crop of young players he is the one that impresses me the most.

Alisa Maric. She became a WIM at 15 and WGM at 18. She was among the ten best in the world in six consecutive women's world championships, and twice the third ranked player in the world women's rankings.

-m.

Klaus Junge,among the strongest German masters at age 17 or 18.Now largely forgotten because he died in the last weeks of WWII,aged 21.

Jutta Hempel. Samuel Reshevsky. Nice record for Junge.

Also very impressed with Giri.

Stateside - Nakamura, Vinay Bhat, Ray Robson, Ilya Gurevich, Patrick Wolfe and now Hess and Shankland I suppose.

Judit Polgar was quite the player along with Magnus and Karjakin.

Pretty much you can just search age records for master and and gm and you will have an ongoing list of prodigies.