Talk:Chess prodigy

It's incredibly deragatory and abelist, how this entire page completely refuses to acknowledge autistic savantism as the origin and basis of chess skill and the meaning of players' neurodivergence. Honestly, this current publicity page is absolutely nonsense. Autism was first identifid in chess students! There's no reason the public Wiki Pidos page should support this outdated and inaccurate viewpoint! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:CA00:1DC:CD50:0:0:1261:12B7 (talk) 04:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Savantism and chess don’t mix. A savant performs poorly in everything except a single subject. Savants and prodigies are very different phenomenons. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281318508_Prodigies_and_savants 109.38.139.150 (talk) 19:36, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

I don't understand this:

Chessplayers tend to gain the Grandmaster title earlier and earlier, one of the reasons being the importance of using computers in Chess.

Why do computers make it easier for players to become grandmasters sooner? I mean, everybody uses computers, not just young players. I would have thought that the real reason for the lowering in the age of grandmasters is a general devaluation of the grandmaster title (certainly there are more grandmasters now than ever before). --Camembert

I've decided to remove that setence. Maybe I'm not thinking right, but I just don't see what relevence computers have here. --Camembert

OK

Pascal 22:38 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

A reason would be that it accelerates learning, thus leading to increasingly younger grandmasters. Mathmo ^Talk 11:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

I've changed the Morphy score against Löwenthal from 3-0 back to 2.5-0.5 (which is what it was before). I'm pretty certain this is correct: Morphy won the first two games, and agreed a draw in the third despite having a much superior position, if I remember correctly. Admittedly I don't have anything definitive to hand to check this right now, but I'm fairly confident its correct, and [1] (first paragraph below the second picture) and [2] for example seem to back it up. --Camembert

Turns out I was wrong - see Paul Morphy. --Camembert

in the list of chess prodigies, someone needs to decide if the list items will end in periods or not- we can't have it change from item to item. also, I removed the redundant link to paul morphy; removed (See Paul Morphy) from "Paul Morphy blah blah blah blah. (See Paul Morphy)" where 'Paul Morphy' is linked both times.

Rashad9607 06:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

It seems to me this table is of arbitary length. I propose shortening it to a set length, probably the youngest 10. Rocksong 02:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think Nakamura should be added this list as youngest grandmasters. He beat Fischer by a very little margin: 15 years and 79 days

The list was getting too long and vague, with entries of "possible" 15 or 16 y.o. GMs; so I cut it to be only those who reached the GM title before their 15th birthday. If you want to add Nakamura, then for consistency you should add all players who reached the title before they turned 16. I decided there was little point, but others are welcome to disagree. Rocksong 00:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

What about Polish grandmaster Dariusz Świercz? He was born on May 1994. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.0.125.55 (talk) 07:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Carlsen shouldnt appear at the first table: he never was the youngest grandmaster ever (karjakin became GM in 2002, Carlsen only made it in 2004...); the funny thing is that the table itself has this contraditory info... Can anyone put some proof that Bronstein was cypriot when he received the GM title in 1950? he was born in ukranian territory, and also represented USSR. I heard he represented Cyprus, but it isn't quoted in his wikipedia article and neither there's some kind of reference here... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.101.177.224 (talk) 18:56, 4 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ray Robson may make it to GM in a couple of years. If so, he needs to be listed. Fide master at 10, USCF master at 11, International Master at 13. Bubba73 (talk), 01:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC) --Voorlandt (talk) 18:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Andy Soltis writes in Chess Lists of Bu Xiangzhi, "some critics dispute this and claim Ponomariov's record was broken by Teimour Radjabov at 14 years, 14 days in March 2001." Does anyone know why this might be disputed? Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

• Why is Jorge Cori added to the list? He has not passed 2500 yet, so even if he got the required norms, he will not be awarded the title officially. -EeEk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.195.8.242 (talk) 12:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)Reply
• Jorge Cori achieved GM title when he was "14 years, 12 months old"?! I thought that 12 months = 1 year.

Yes, it doesn't make sense. We need a source to confirm that a) he's a GM and b) he earned it before the age of 15. Removed for now.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 22:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

14 years, 2 months. Added with source http://players.chessdom.com/jorge-cori. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 22:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

• Cori achieved his final GM norm in October 2009, at the age of 14 years and 2 months, as the Chessdom article states, but at the time his rating wasn't above 2500 yet, neither in the live ratings (you can easily check here: http://ratings.fide.com/hist.phtml?event=3802272). He crossed the 2500 rating mark during the III Open IRT Jose Marca In Memoriam Premier, as you can easily check here http://ratings.fide.com/individual_calculations.phtml?idnumber=3802272&rating_period=2010-03-01&t=0. After he defeated Fernandez, Fernando in the 7th round his live rating was 2503,1. The tournament started on January 8, 2010, thus the seventh round should have been on January 14, 2010, when Cori was 14 years, 5 months, 15 days old. Sophia91 (talk) 00:07, 23 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Who cares about a table of the world's youngest chess masters? This article ought to explain why some people are "chess prodigies", how their abilities differ from adult masters, what they are like as children, etc As it stands, this article tells almost nothing about the subject. 128.146.172.101 (talk) 21:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

WP:SOFIXIT.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 22:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Agreed - perhaps rename this to a "list"? Or only discuss achievements under age ten (definition of prodigy - see below), drop the list and include chess-related material about prodigies in general leveraging material at Child prodigy and about learning the game at Chess. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 14:43, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Richard Rapport just earned his thrid GM norm at age 13, but he doesn't have an article. Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 22:14, 2 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Now he has an article. Of course, the GM title isn't official yet. Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 17:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

ChessBase's table claims Yu Yangyi became a GM at 15 year and 23 days old, referring to the fact that his rating of 2510 was published on July 1st, 2009, but this rating was achieved at the end of the tournament where he achieved his final GM norm (see rating calculation for July 2009), the 2nd Subic International Open (see his GM title application), which ended on May 30, 2009, before his 15th birthday. Therefore it turns out that Yu Yangyi qualified for the GM title at 14 year, 11 months and 23 days (he was born on 8 June 1994, as you can easily check on his page). Sophia91 (talk) 11:33, 29 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

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The article includes this: "(since 1950, when the title was introduced)". That implies there is a governing body, possibly FIDE, that has a policy for determining who qualifies. The policy might be an official definition, or a voting procedure. Whichever it is, the policy should be quoted and cited in the article. SlowJog (talk) 17:58, 16 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

@SlowJog: The note refers to the grandmaster title. Chess prodigy is not a FIDE title. Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:05, 23 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

The article refers to child prodigy which defines it in psychology research literature as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert as in the List of child prodigies in other fields. But while surely that applies to many of these players, most of the article talks of older achievements. Just a few achievements are documented below age 10. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 14:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Funnily enough I added the section on "youngest to defeat a GM" quite recently; before that there would have been virtually nothing in the article meeting that "under 10" standard. There have not yet been any Grandmasters below age 10, so I don't think its unreasonable to bend the definition a little. A list of the youngest Grandmasters seems an encyclopedic topic, and I think this is the most appropriate article in which to have it, unless there's one I've overlooked.-- P-K3 (talk) 14:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

"Child prodigies" are not necessarily high achievers in adulthood. Jutta Hempel springs to mind, as far as I can tell she's had a fairly ordinary life since she was 10. Thing about chess is it requires university degree level study to achieve master status. Yes, a few 13, 14 year olds are able to do it. But not 10 year olds. Can't happen. Needs more than "natural talent", if such a thing even exists. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 15:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Is there some reason the article separates male and female Grandmasters? Does FIDE do it that way? Sundayclose (talk) 01:16, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

I agree, I will remove it. Nona Gaprindashvili certainly doesn't belong in this article. While winning the world women's championship at 21 is certainly an achievement, it is not evidence that she was a child prodigy. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 02:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

I put it back. The reason women are listed separately is because there are fewer top-level female players (for a variety of reasons), and so it is of interest. As for the inclusion of Gaprindashvili: David Bronstein was not a prodigy either but he is listed as the original youngest GM at 26. Adpete (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGcUotg3Ss Thewriter006 (talk) 13:21, 31 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

why no Youngest to defeat WGM?

why no List of youngest WGMs?

why not List of youngest WGMs since 19XX?

Thewriter006 (talk) 13:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

I have restored the list of youngest female GMs. But since the WGM title is lower than the GM title, the answer to your questions is probably that very few people care about the "youngest WGM" record, so there are few sources. If sources are found, I think it could go in. The same for the youngest IM. Adpete (talk) 23:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

God bless you for restoring the list! :D

btw see youngest for female IM, WFM, WCM: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/36914/list-of-records-for-youngest-wfms-woman-fide-masters-since-1950-or-whenever and https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/36912/list-of-records-for-youngest-wcms-woman-candidate-masters-since-1950 and https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/36909/list-of-records-for-youngest-female-international-masters-since-1950

also, may you please add month in the list? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chess_prodigy#youngest_female_GM%3A_may_we_please_add_month%3F

Thewriter006 (talk) 01:49, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

The section "Youngest to defeat a grandmaster" has an illogical formulation in the paragraph headers, using "8th year","9th year","10th" while referring to 8 year olds,9year olds,10 year olds. Someone at 8 years of age is in fact in their 9th year etc. Flight714 (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

The table of youngest GMs currently has 5 12-year-olds, 8 13-year-olds and (I think) 28 14-year-olds. I wouldn't be surprised if some 14-year-olds are missing. I think it is time we culled the list to 13 years and younger - becoming a GM at 14 is no longer that unusual. It's a very long table which is of little value, in my opinion.

Also I'd be happy to see other records included: youngest IM, youngest over 2600, 2700, 2800. Adpete (talk) 23:51, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

I have to agree, due to title inflation it's no longer that much of an achievement to become a GM at 14. It's remarkable that Fischer's record of 15 years and 6 months stood for over 30 years. Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:57, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

"I have to agree, due to title inflation it's no longer that much of an achievement to become a GM at 14." I strongly disagree. Of millions playing, only a dozens were able to. Such sentences aren't exactly respectful of the difficulty of the task. It is like to say "given the amount of billionaires, it is not much of an achievement to have a net worth of 100 million of dollars (in the 2021 economy)" and that could qualify as a silly statement. --Pier4r (talk) 21:11, 19 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

omg are you the same Pier4r from reddit? Thewriter006 (talk) 01:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, I kind of misspoke there. I'm didn't mean to say it's not much of an achievement, just it's not as much of an achievement as it used to be. Title inflation is definitely a thing, as are the number of tournaments available to get norms, and it is not as hard to become a grandmaster at a young age as in the past. As Adpete says, it's no longer unusual enough for it to be worthwhile to list every 14-year-old grandmaster.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 13:49, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

of course it matters only for the susan and then judit case but yeah if judit were(/was? forgot subjunctive rule) 1st then susan shouldn't be on the list right?

Thewriter006 (talk) 01:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

For the "Informal conditions" section, William Graif appears to be the youngest victor over a GM by virtue of his win in a simul over GM Alexander Shabalov when Graif was 8 years, 6 months, and 3 days old. As evidenced here: http://www.uschess.org/index.php/May/Emotions-Run-High-in-Pittsburgh.html

I believe this should be added. 100.2.78.247 (talk) 01:15, 5 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

I'm not doubting that the age you quoted there is accurate, but the source you provided doesn't verify that - it doesn't mention his age at all. Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ah, well I found the birth date here: https://www.facebook.com/wgraif/about_contact_and_basic_info (link works if you are logged into any Facebook account)

And I found the birth year here: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2609835 100.2.78.247 (talk) 04:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Not sure if the Facebook link is credible enough though. But I found this article: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/April/Trophies-Plus-All-America-Team.html

We know Graif was born in 1999 based on the FIDE link. And this confirms that he was still 9 years old on March 31, 2010. So unless he was born specifically in April, he would still be only 8 years old at the time of his game against Shabalov in May 2008. So I feel comfortable asserting that this game was before his 9th birthday. 100.2.78.247 (talk) 04:56, 6 December 2022 (UTC)Reply