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			'''Samuel Sevian''' (born December 26, 2000) is an ] chess ]. A ], he earned the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 27 days, making him the youngest ever American grandmaster at the time.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Youngest-ever American Chess Grandmaster crowned in St. Louis \|url=http://fox2now.com/2014/11/23/youngest-ever-american-chess-grandmaster-crowned-in-st-louis/ \|accessdate=November 24, 2014 \|agency=] \|date=November 23, 2014}}</ref><ref name=USCF>{{cite news \|title=Sevian, 13, Youngest-Ever American Grandmaster \|url=http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12868/788/ \|accessdate=November 24, 2014 \|agency=] \|date=November 23, 2014}}</ref> He also broke all US age records in reaching the titles of National and International Master.<ref>{{cite web \|author=Jerauld, Brian \|url=http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/world-chess-champ-12-earns-international-master-title \|title=World Chess Champ, 12, Earns International Master Title \| St. Louis Public Radio \|publisher=News.stlpublicradio.org \|date=December 12, 2013 \|accessdate=January 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12454/735/ \|title=The United States Chess Federation - Sevian Awarded IM Title \|publisher=Uschess.org \|date=December 5, 2013 \|accessdate=January 24, 2014}}</ref>
	'''Samuel Sevian''' (born December 26, 2000) is an American ] prodigy of Armenian descent. He is from ], ]. On December 5, 2010, he became the youngest ] in USCF history with a rating of 2206 at the age of 9 years, 11 months and 9 days; this record was later broken in 2013 by ].<ref></ref>

	==~~Earlier~~ career==		==Chess career==
			Sevian started to play chess at the age of 5 and his first major success came in 2009 when he broke the record for the youngest ] in ] history at 8 years, 2 months of age, beating Brian Luo's previous record by over 10 months.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Mechanics' Institute Chess Room \|url=http://www.chessclub.org/news.php?n=352-363%2520(compilation) \|website=Chessclub.org \|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}</ref> On December 9, 2010, Sevian became the youngest ] in USCF history at 9 years, 11 months, and 23 days, beating Nicholas Nip's record by 3 days.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The United States Chess Federation - Samuel Sevian Youngest US Master Ever! \|url=http://www.uschess.org/content/view/10898/570/ \|website=www.uschess.org \|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}</ref> In 2012, he completed all the ]s required for the title of ] (IM) in the space of 6 months. He became an IM after crossing the 2400 FIDE rating mark during Norm tournament in November 2013 in Budapest, thus setting the new US record of 12 years, 10 months.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Profile of a prodigy: Samuel Sevian \|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/profile-of-a-prodigy-samuel-sevian \|website=ChessBase \|date=December 17, 2014 \|publisher=James Satrapa \|accessdate=January 14, 2015}}</ref>
	Sevian played his first tournament in ] on August 12, 2006. His first success came when he became the youngest Expert in US history, an achievement that was featured in an article of the '']'' by ] Jack Peters. On December 19, 2010 Sevian broke yet another major record by becoming youngest ever National Master in the US chess history. In 2012 Sevian completed all International Master Norms winning two Metropolitan IM and one GM Norm tournament held in Los Angeles. He became the World Champion in the U12 category in Maribor Slovenia, November 7–19, 2012. His pre-tournament (FIDE) rating at the World Youth was 2347, almost 100 points above his nearest competitor. In May 2013 Sevian was invited to play US Championship in Saint Louis as the youngest ever participant in the US History. With the field consisted of 24 players Sevian scored 4/9, which placed him in the shared 15th place ahead of several prominent Grandmasters. In June Sevian, again the youngest in the field of competitors, played in the US Junior under 20 Championship where he came second only half a point behind the eventual winner, ] Sevian was awarded the International Master title in November 2013 when he crossed 2400 FIDE rating mark.

			In November 2012, he became the World Champion in the U12 category at the ]s in ], ]. In May 2013, Sevian was invited to play in the ] in ] as the youngest ever participant. The field consisted of 24 players and Sevian scored 4/9 points, which placed him in shared 14th place ahead of several grandmasters.

			In November 2014 Sevian became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, and 27 days, a new US record. After completing all three norms required for the title at the Foxwoods Open in January 2014, Saint Louis GM Invitational in May and Washington International in August 2014 at age 13 years and 7 months, he then completed the final requirement for the title by reaching over a ] rating of 2500 during the Saint Louis GM Norm Invitational tournament, which he won convincingly with the score of 7½/9 points.<ref name=USCF />

			He took part in the ] event in January 2015, sharing fifth place with a score of 7½/13 points.<ref>{{cite web \|author=Log in / Register \|url=https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tataSteelChallengers2015 \|title=Tata Steel Challengers 2015 \|publisher=chess24.com \|date=December 5, 2017 \|accessdate=December 11, 2017}}</ref> Sevian shared fifth place in the US Chess Championship 2015, beating ], a world top ten ranked player, and drawing with ] as well as defending champion ]. This performance earned him a spot in the ], where he drew both classical games against ] in the first round of the tournament but was eliminated in the ] playoff.

			In June 2017, Sevian won the ] in ], Colombia, which in that year had assembled the best Grandmasters of the Western Hemisphere, scoring 8½/11 points with superior tiebreak.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1180.html#5 \|title=The Week in Chess 1180 \|website=theweekinchess.com \|access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://es.chessbase.com/post/samuel-sevian-gana-continental-de-las-americas-2017 \|title=Samuel Sevian, campeón de América \|last=Londoño \|first=Diego \|date=June 20, 2017 \|work=Noticias de ajedrez \|publisher=ChessBase \|access-date=2017-06-26 \|language=es}}</ref> Winning this coveted Cup at the age of 16, Sevian yet again added a new age record to the long list of his achievements, now as the youngest ever American Continental Champion.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://new.uschess.org/news/gm-samuel-sevian-wins-continental-championship/ \|title=GM Samuel Sevian wins Continental Championship \|last=Guadalupe \|first=Franc \|date=June 19, 2017 \|website=] \|access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref> In September, he participated in the ]. He defeated ] in the first round, then was defeated by ] in the second round and eliminated from the tournament.

			In 2019, he participated in the ]. He defeated ] in the first round, then was defeated by ] in the second round and eliminated from the tournament. Also, in 2019 Sevian represented the US National Team at the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan. He won the Individual Bronze medal for his performance on the second board.

			In 2021, he participated in the ]. He defeated ] in the first round and ] in the second round, then was defeated by eventual winner ] in the third round and eliminated from the tournament.

			Also in 2021, Sevian finished the United States Championship in the top three with the same score 6.5/11 as ] and the eventual tie-break winner ], with a performance rating of 2747, higher than that of all the competitors.

			In April 2022 Sevian participated in the first edition of the ], a double elimination tournament where he defeated Wesley So in the classical match, before being knocked out by Fabiano Caruana in rapid tiebreaks, ultimately being eliminated by ] in the elimination bracket in rapid. This pushed him above 2700 for the first time. He won the annual Chess9LX event hosted by the St Louis Chess Club in 2023. <ref>{{Cite web \|title=Sam Sevian wins 2023 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX \|url=https://www.fide.com/news/2629 \|access-date=2023-09-27 \|website=www.fide.com \|language=en}}</ref>

			==Personal life==
			Sevian was born in ], New York, to Armine and Armen Sevian, both of ] heritage. His father, Armen, held the title of candidate master in ] before moving to the United States in 1996 for his ] studies. {{As of\|2015\|post=,}} Armen was the principal scientist for a laser manufacturing company near Boston.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/samuel-sevian-young-armen_b_6323816 \|title=Samuel Sevian: Young Armenian-American Grandmaster Rises to the Top \|date=December 15, 2014 \|website=HuffPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=DePaolo \|first=Joe \|title=Could Sam Sevian become the youngest US chess grandmaster ever? \|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/03/29/could-sam-sevian-become-youngest-chess-grandmaster-ever/mGPac0X1Tq6OUYVebh0leO/story.html?event=event25 \|accessdate=October 2, 2014 \|work=] \|date=March 30, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/sports/program-prepares-the-chess-prodigy-sam-sevian-for-his-next-moves.html \|title=A Game's Grand Young Man \|first=Joe \|last=Depaolo \|work=The New York Times \|date=January 8, 2015 \|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
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	==External links==		==External links==
			* {{FIDE}}
	* {{fide\|id=2040506\|name=Sevian Samuel}}
			* {{Chessgames.com player\|128737}}
⚫	* from susanpolgar.blogspot.com
			* {{365Chess.com player\|Samuel_Sevian}}
			* {{Chess.com player\|sam-sevian\|Sam Sevian\|member=Konavets}}
			* {{Twitter\|SamSevian\|Sam Sevian}}
			* plays a blitz chess game with ]
		⚫	* from susanpolgar.blogspot.com
	* from uschess.org		* from uschess.org
		⚫	* {{citation \|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chess-kid-20110505,0,2033755.story \|title=At age 10, chess master is already an old pro \|last=Kraft \|first=Scott \|periodical=] \|date=May 5, 2011}}
	* from kebuchess.com
	*
⚫	* {{citation\|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chess-kid-20110505,0,2033755.story\|title=At age 10, chess master is already an old pro\|last=Kraft\|first=Scott\|periodical=]\|date=May 5, 2011}}

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Latest revision as of 05:49, 11 October 2024

Armenian-American chess grandmaster (born 2000)

Samuel Sevian
Sevian in 2023
Country	United States
Born	(2000-12-26) December 26, 2000 (age 24) Corning, New York, U.S.
Title	Grandmaster (2014)
FIDE rating	2692 (January 2025)
Peak rating	2703 (May 2022)
Ranking	No. 38 (January 2025)
Peak ranking	No. 32 (June 2022)

Samuel Sevian (born December 26, 2000) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 27 days, making him the youngest ever American grandmaster at the time. He also broke all US age records in reaching the titles of National and International Master.

Chess career

Sevian started to play chess at the age of 5 and his first major success came in 2009 when he broke the record for the youngest Expert in USCF history at 8 years, 2 months of age, beating Brian Luo's previous record by over 10 months. On December 9, 2010, Sevian became the youngest National Master in USCF history at 9 years, 11 months, and 23 days, beating Nicholas Nip's record by 3 days. In 2012, he completed all the norms required for the title of International Master (IM) in the space of 6 months. He became an IM after crossing the 2400 FIDE rating mark during Norm tournament in November 2013 in Budapest, thus setting the new US record of 12 years, 10 months.

In November 2012, he became the World Champion in the U12 category at the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia. In May 2013, Sevian was invited to play in the U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis as the youngest ever participant. The field consisted of 24 players and Sevian scored 4/9 points, which placed him in shared 14th place ahead of several grandmasters.

In November 2014 Sevian became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, and 27 days, a new US record. After completing all three norms required for the title at the Foxwoods Open in January 2014, Saint Louis GM Invitational in May and Washington International in August 2014 at age 13 years and 7 months, he then completed the final requirement for the title by reaching over a FIDE rating of 2500 during the Saint Louis GM Norm Invitational tournament, which he won convincingly with the score of 7½/9 points.

He took part in the Tata Steel Challengers event in January 2015, sharing fifth place with a score of 7½/13 points. Sevian shared fifth place in the US Chess Championship 2015, beating Wesley So, a world top ten ranked player, and drawing with Hikaru Nakamura as well as defending champion Gata Kamsky. This performance earned him a spot in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he drew both classical games against Teimour Radjabov in the first round of the tournament but was eliminated in the rapid playoff.

In June 2017, Sevian won the American Continental Chess Championship in Medellín, Colombia, which in that year had assembled the best Grandmasters of the Western Hemisphere, scoring 8½/11 points with superior tiebreak. Winning this coveted Cup at the age of 16, Sevian yet again added a new age record to the long list of his achievements, now as the youngest ever American Continental Champion. In September, he participated in the Chess World Cup 2017. He defeated Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu in the first round, then was defeated by Li Chao in the second round and eliminated from the tournament.

In 2019, he participated in the Chess World Cup 2019. He defeated Aryan Tari in the first round, then was defeated by Sergey Karjakin in the second round and eliminated from the tournament. Also, in 2019 Sevian represented the US National Team at the World Team Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan. He won the Individual Bronze medal for his performance on the second board.

In 2021, he participated in the Chess World Cup 2021. He defeated Sumant Subramaniam in the first round and Benjamin Bok in the second round, then was defeated by eventual winner Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the third round and eliminated from the tournament.

Also in 2021, Sevian finished the United States Championship in the top three with the same score 6.5/11 as Fabiano Caruana and the eventual tie-break winner Wesley So, with a performance rating of 2747, higher than that of all the competitors.

In April 2022 Sevian participated in the first edition of the American Cup, a double elimination tournament where he defeated Wesley So in the classical match, before being knocked out by Fabiano Caruana in rapid tiebreaks, ultimately being eliminated by Ray Robson in the elimination bracket in rapid. This pushed him above 2700 for the first time. He won the annual Chess9LX event hosted by the St Louis Chess Club in 2023.

Personal life

Sevian was born in Corning, New York, to Armine and Armen Sevian, both of Armenian heritage. His father, Armen, held the title of candidate master in Soviet Armenia before moving to the United States in 1996 for his PhD studies. As of 2015, Armen was the principal scientist for a laser manufacturing company near Boston.

References

"Youngest-ever American Chess Grandmaster crowned in St. Louis". Fox News. November 23, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
^ "Sevian, 13, Youngest-Ever American Grandmaster". US Chess Federation. November 23, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
Jerauld, Brian (December 12, 2013). "World Chess Champ, 12, Earns International Master Title | St. Louis Public Radio". News.stlpublicradio.org. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
"The United States Chess Federation - Sevian Awarded IM Title". Uschess.org. December 5, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
"Mechanics' Institute Chess Room". Chessclub.org. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
"The United States Chess Federation - Samuel Sevian Youngest US Master Ever!". www.uschess.org. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
"Profile of a prodigy: Samuel Sevian". ChessBase. James Satrapa. December 17, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
Log in / Register (December 5, 2017). "Tata Steel Challengers 2015". chess24.com. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
"The Week in Chess 1180". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
Londoño, Diego (June 20, 2017). "Samuel Sevian, campeón de América". Noticias de ajedrez (in Spanish). ChessBase. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
Guadalupe, Franc (June 19, 2017). "GM Samuel Sevian wins Continental Championship". US Chess. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
"Sam Sevian wins 2023 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX". www.fide.com. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
"Samuel Sevian: Young Armenian-American Grandmaster Rises to the Top". HuffPost. December 15, 2014.
DePaolo, Joe (March 30, 2014). "Could Sam Sevian become the youngest US chess grandmaster ever?". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
Depaolo, Joe (January 8, 2015). "A Game's Grand Young Man". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.

External links

Samuel Sevian rating card at FIDE
Samuel Sevian player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Samuel Sevian chess games at 365Chess.com
Sam Sevian player profile at Chess.com
Sam Sevian on Twitter
10-year-old Samuel Sevian plays a blitz chess game with Greg Shahade
8-year-old expert from susanpolgar.blogspot.com
The United States Chess Federation Top Aged 9 from uschess.org
Kraft, Scott (May 5, 2011), "At age 10, chess master is already an old pro", Los Angeles Times

Achievements
Preceded byNicholas Nip	Youngest ever United States chessmaster 2010–13	Succeeded byAwonder Liang
Preceded byRay Robson	Youngest ever United States International Master 2013-2015	Succeeded byAwonder Liang
Preceded byRay Robson	Youngest ever United States Grandmaster 2014-2021	Succeeded byAbhimanyu Mishra

v t e American grandmasters
Chess players for the United States with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
1950–1959	Benko Bisguier Evans Fine Fischer Kashdan Reshevsky Rossolimo
1960–1969	Byrne Kavalek Lombardy
1970–1979	Alburt Biyiasas Christiansen Dzindzichashvili Gulko Palatnik Rogoff Tarjan
1980–1989	Benjamin D. Gurevich Dake De Firmian Denker Dlugy Ehlvest Fedorowicz Goldin Henley Kaidanov Kudrin Mednis Rohde Seirawan Soltis Wilder Zaichik
1990–1999	Akopian Annakov Becerra Bruzón Fishbein I. Gurevich Ivanov Kamsky Novikov Onischuk Sagalchik Schwartzman Serper Shabalov Shaked Sher Sherzer Shulman Stripunsky Wolff Yermolinsky
2000–2009	Akobian Aronian Ashley Bhat Caruana Domínguez Erenburg Finegold Friedel Gareyev González Hernández Hess Izoria Jimenez Kaufman Khachiyan Kraai Kreiman Moradi Nakamura Perelshteyn Quesada Ramírez So Świercz Zherebukh Ziatdinov
2010–2019	Antipov Arnold Brown Burke Chandra Checa Holt Hungaski Krush Lenderman Li Liang Molner Naroditsky Oparin Robson Sevian Sevillano Shankland Smith Tang Troff Xiong Yang Zierk
2020–2029	Balakrishnan Brodsky Daggupati Fernandez Ghazarian Guo Hong Jacobson Mishra Niemann Sheng Sturt Tiglon Woodward Yoo
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:American chess players

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