Tepe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament

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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.

Photo: Lars OA Hedlund

FIDE World Rating: 50
Elo: 2666
Born: June 3, 1993, in Dalby; Sweden.
2008: Had his first real international success when he finished 4th in the U16 class in the European Youth Championships. He also won the Olomouc Open and made his first grandmaster norm.
2009: Made his debut in the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament – finished second
2010: At the age of 17, he became a grandmaster. Finished 3rd in the U18 class in the European Youth Championships.
2011: Won the U18 class in the European Youth Championships.
2015: Won the Swedish Chess Championships and later that summer the Abu Dhabi Masters.
2016: Qualified for Norway Chess after winning the qualifier in Fagernes.
2017: Won the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, which reappeared in the tournament calendar after an absence of several years.
2019: Finished second in the individual European Chess Championship. Reached his (so far) peak rating on the FIDE world rating list of 2694 (place 44).
2021: Participated in the prestigious Tata Steel Masters, where he was among the top players after half the tournament after defeating, among others, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. He finally ended up in 9th place.
2023: Reached the last 16 in the World Cup, losing against Arjun Erigaisi.
2025: Once again reached the last 16 in the World Cup.
2026: Reached the world top-50 list. This is the highest spot he has held in two years.

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FIDE World Rating: 37
Elo: 2687
Born: June 3, 2011, in Bursa, Turkiye.
2017: Learned chess from his pre-school teacher at the age of 6.
2019: Won the U8 class in the European Youth Championships by a large margin. He had secured his title already before the last round.
2022: Was awarded the title International Master (IM).
2024: Became a grandmaster and reaches a rating of 2569 before his 13th birthday. This meant that he beat Judit Polgar’s record from back in 1989. The same summer, he kept adding to his rating and passed the 2600 limit, breaking yet another of Judit Polgar’s records.
2025: Made his debut in the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, sharing second place with Nils Grandelius. With this result and another couple of good results, he entered the world top-100 list at 14 years old. At the end of this year, he finished in 28th place in the FIDE Grand Swiss and in 15th place in the World Rapid Chess Championship. Erdogmus achievements prompted Magnus Carlsen to say: ” Yağız is the best 14-year-old ever seen in chess… …We will be hearing a lot about him in the future.”
2026: As the youngest participant ever in Tata Steel Masters, he finished in 6th place.

Photo: Lars OA Hedlund

FIDE World Rating: 19
Elo: 2729
Born: April 30, 1999, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
2013: Became a grandmaster at the age of 16 – one of the youngest in the history of Dutch chess.
2016: Won the Dutch Chess Championship and played in Sweden for the first time, finishing in ninth place in the Hasselbacken Chess Open.
2021: Won Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee after winning the tie-break against fellow countryman Anish Giri. This was the first Dutch victory in 36 years. Later in the same year, he also won the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament.
2026: After several years of lack of rating progress, Jorden van Foreest has recently taken a great leap upwards on the FIDE rating list. In march, he reached 2729 on the FIDE rating list, putting him in nineteenth place.