Editing Chess prodigy (section)

===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>