There was a recent Boston Globe article on an 11-year=old female who has reched a 2202 rating. It can be found by searching news.google.com on chess Andover
Yes, this is Carissa Yip. She is well known in the Boston area - she got a lot of press last year too after she won a game from GM Ivanov. I’ve played her five times myself. My record is against her is +4, -1 but the last time was over six months ago, so she is already a completely different player.
There are a lot of young prodigies sneaking up on us, some not getting any press at all (that I know of). I was looking at the crosstable from the recent Reykjavik Open when I noticed a USA player I had never heard of with the note “U12” next to his name. He finished the event with 6.0/10. Look here and scroll down to the 6.0 group:
chess-results.com/tnr143563.aspx … =30&wi=821
So, I looked up his MSA and, well, take a look at his rating history graph:
main.uschess.org/datapage/rating … d=15041466
In just a little over two years, he’s gone from about 1000 to just under 2300! Who IS this kid? He lives two states away from me and I’ve never heard of him. I wonder how many more like him there are, who never make the newspapers.
– Hal Terrie
Until recently, Hans Moke Niemann lived in Northern CA. John Donaldson told me to look out for him since he was moving to the East Coast.
Saw it a few days ago. She attends the same middle school my high school daughter went to just a few years ago. I wonder if she went West Elementary which has had a very active chess club for quite some time.
Hans is a beast. I think his mature 2181 FIDE rating proves the point best. He got plenty of experience playing experts and masters in SF, and recently moved to play in NYC. His top scalps are Grandmasters Lenderman and Paragua. If he slows down just a little, he will be earning norms in no time.
Michael Aigner
I played him in a quad in Madison 2013. His rating was about the same as mine. He clobbered me in the opening but went for the wrong crusher, so I won. I had no idea how lucky I was! Gotta get the kids young while you still can.
Niemann’s rating history graph bears a striking resemblance to Sam Shankland’s.
Perhaps this outlier can be used to demonstrate that none of our rating systems are “broken.”