Photo: Vysotsky
FIDE World Rating: 90
Elo: 2631
Born: May 2, 2010, in Frisco, Texas, USA.
2021: Secured his first international master norm in the North American Junior Championship.
2022: Showed great promise by getting his first grandmaster norm.
2023: Caused an upset when he defeated US star player Hans Niemann in the World Junior Championship.
2024: Became a grandmaster at the age of 13.
2025: Won the the US Junior Championship with a performance rating of 2646. Later that year, he had his big international break-through when he finished in shared fifth place in the FIDE Grand Swiss. In this tournament, he defeated both Levon Aronian and Yu Yangyi, but had to settle for a draw against Sweden’s Grandelius.
2026: Won Tata Steel Challengers in Wijk aan Zee. He also set an online chess record, reaching a bullet (1-min) rating of 3582 at chess.com.