Samuel Sevian

Samuel Sevian, 2016
Association	United States
Born	December 26, 2000 Corning
title	International Master (2013) Grand Master (2014)
Current  Elo rating	2660 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2677 (June 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Samuel Sevian (* 26. December 2000 in Corning , New York ) is an American chess - Grand Master of Armenian descent.

Life

He is the youngest international champion in the USA at the time of the title appointment and was the youngest international champion worldwide before Anton Smirnov (* 2001) was awarded the title (he fulfilled his third IM standard at the Chess Olympiad in August 2014 , but only reached in September 2014 the required minimum Elo of 2400). He fulfilled the required standards at the 19th, 20th and 23rd Metropolitain FIDE Invitational in Los Angeles in 2012 , but since he had not yet reached the required minimum lo of 2400, he was awarded the IM title at the 1st quarter Presidential Board 2013 meeting in January 2013 initially awarded with reservation of the rating. In the FIDE list of December 2013, he achieved an Elo rating of 2401 and has since held the title of International Master. In November 2014 he was named Grand Master on condition that he achieved an Elo rating of at least 2500. He achieved the GM standards in January 2014 at the Foxwoods Open in Mashantucket , in May 2014 at a GM tournament in St. Louis and in August 2014 at the 3rd Annual Washington Intl Section A in Rockville, Maryland . As early as December 2014, he achieved an Elo rating of 2511 and has held the title of grandmaster ever since. This made him the youngest grandmaster in United States history. Samuel Sevian was the 2012 youth world champion in the U12 age group.

In the United States Chess League , he played for the San Francisco Mechanics in 2011 and 2012 , and for Boston Blitz in 2013 and 2014 . In 2016 he played for Chess24-VTI-Atocha in the Spanish División de Honor .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Samuel Sevian on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IM request of Samuel Sevian in FIDE (87 kB English, PDF file)
2. ↑ Awarding of titles by the 1st quarter Presidential Board 2013 at FIDE (English)
3. ↑ Title awards at the 4rd quarter Presidential Board 2014 at FIDE (English)
4. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
5. ↑ Joe Depaolo: A Game's Grand Young Man . New York Times website, January 8, 2015, accessed July 8, 2015