Editing Chess prodigy (section)

== Youngest to defeat a grandmaster ==
There is often widespread attention when a young player defeats a Grandmaster, whether in a standard tournament game or less formal conditions.
[[File:Magnus Carlsen versus Ivan Sokolov.jpg|thumb|13-year-old [[Magnus Carlsen]] playing against 35-year-old [[Ivan Sokolov (chess player)|Ivan Sokolov]] in 2004]]
===Formal conditions===
The youngest player to defeat a grandmaster under standard [[time control]]s is Ashwath Kaushik, who in February 2024 defeated [[Jacek Stopa]] at the age of 8 years, 6 months, and 11 days.

The previous record was set by Leonid Ivanovic, who in January 2024 defeated [[Milko Popchev]] at the Novogodisnji rating ŠSB in Belgrade, Serbia at the age of 8 years, 11 months, and 7 days.<ref>{{cite web|date=21 January 2024|title=8-Year-Old Makes History Becoming Youngest To Beat Grandmaster In Classical Chess|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/8-year-old-becomes-youngest-to-beat-grandmaster-in-classical-chess#:~:text=Leonid%20Ivanovic%20from%20Serbia%20has,a%20grandmaster%20in%20classical%20chess.|work=chess.com|first=Tarjei|last=Svensen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=22 January 2024|title=Eight Year Old Leonid Ivanoivc Becomes Youngest Player To Beat GM In Classical Chess|url=https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!sports/eight-year-old-leonid-ivanoivc-becomes-youngest-player-to-beat-gm-in-classical-chess-enn24012204404}}</ref> 

Aarit Kapil, at just 9 years, 2 months, and 18 days old, has become the youngest Indian and the third youngest player worldwide to defeat a Grandmaster under classical time control.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gaur |first=Sagar |date=2024-12-09 |title=9-year-old Aarit Kapil becomes youngest Indian to beat a chess Grandmaster |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/9-year-old-aarit-kapil-becomes-youngest-indian-to-beat-a-chess-grandmaster-9714953/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

===Informal conditions===

In 1976, a ten-year-old [[Nigel Short]] beat [[Viktor Korchnoi]] as a participant in a [[simultaneous exhibition]], the only game Korchnoi lost in the event.<ref name="chess.com">{{cite web |date=31 August 2011 |title=9-year-old Hetul Shah (India) youngest ever to beat a GM |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/9-year-old-hetul-shah-india-youngest-ever-to-beat-a-gm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125031716/https://www.chess.com/news/view/9-year-old-hetul-shah-india-youngest-ever-to-beat-a-gm |archive-date=2020-11-25 |access-date=15 August 2020 |work=[[Chess.com]]}}</ref>

In 1999, [[David Howell (chess player)|David Howell]] defeated [[John Nunn]] in a [[blitz chess|blitz]] game at the age of eight.<ref name="chess.com"/>

In 2021, 10-year-old Frederick Waldhausen Gordon, from Scotland, won against GM [[Bogdan Lalic]] in an online rapid 10+5 game in the ECF Grand Prix Rapid Event 1 held on lichess.org.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Angie |author-link1= |last2= |first2= |author-link2= |last3= |first3= |author-link3= |last4= |first4= |author-link4= |last5= |first5= |author-link5= |display-authors= |author-mask= |name-list-style= |date= |year= |orig-year= |title=news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife |work=BBC News |script-title= |trans-title= |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-57187522 |publisher=www.[[bbc.co.uk]] |publication-date=22 May 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210522215250/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-57187522 |archive-date=22 May 2021 |access-date=22 May 2021 |via=[[archive.today]] |url-access= |quote= |ref=191-0283 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lichess.org/hih64XAF|title = Rapid Chess • FREDERICKtheMATE vs GM BogdanLalic| date=21 March 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lichess.org/swiss/ILOHq9MS|title = ECF Grand Prix Rapid Event 1 by ECF Online Rapid Grand Prix Series 2021: Standard 10+5 #ILOHq9MS| date=21 March 2021 }}</ref>

In 2023, 8-year-old [[Roman Shogdzhiev]], from Russia, defeated GM [[Jakhongir Vakhidov]] and GM [[Johan-Sebastian Christiansen]] in the [[World Rapid Chess Championship 2023]],<ref>{{cite web|title=World Rapid Chess Championship 2023 Results |url=https://worldrapidandblitz2023.fide.com/results-open-rapid/}}</ref> and after a couple of days defeated GM [[Kirill Shevchenko]], GM [[Alan Pichot]] and GM [[Pranav V]] in the [[World Blitz Chess Championship 2023]].<ref>{{cite web|title=World Blitz Chess Championship 2023 Results|url=https://worldrapidandblitz2023.fide.com/results-open-blitz/}}</ref>