
Sam Sevian, the youngest person to achieve the grandmaster (GM) rating in the United States, earned his last norm in the Saint Louis GM Norm Invitational Tournament. Some important milestones have also been achieved at the SLCC.

Junior Chess Championship, and since 2017, it has hosted the U.S. Since 2009, the Saint Louis Chess Club has hosted the U.S. The Saint Louis Chess Campus, which includes the World Chess Hall of Fame and Saint Louis Chess Club (SLCC), is fortunate to welcome many of today’s most talented young players. Fischer’s early accomplishments and his later victory in the 1972 World Chess Championship popularized the game in America, especially among young people. Roughly a year later, Fischer won his first U.S. At age 13, he played “The Game of the Century” against Donald Byrne, a player twice his age. Future world chess champion Bobby Fischer learned to play chess at age six, and after a few years, he began to set records. One of the most prominent American chess players is also one of the game’s most well-known prodigies. In the United States, many of the country’s most celebrated players gained fame as children. Chess Champion Wesley So, International Master Christopher Yoo, and 2016 World Junior Chess Champion Jeffery Xiong. It features artifacts from the collection of the World Chess Hall of Fame and loans from prodigies and former prodigies, including World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, Grandmaster Leinier Dominguez, Woman Candidate Master Alice Lee, 2020 U.S.

Masterminds tells the stories of talented young players from the 19th century to the present.

Chess prodigies are young players who excel at the game. Unlike many other fields, in chess, kids can sometimes compete with-and defeat-adults.
