Another chess prodigy (Part 2): Ray Robson

If in Group B there is Anish Giri, in Group C we have Ray Robson (born October 28, 1994), the latest Grandmaster from the United States. He earned his third and final GM norm in October 2009 by winning the Pan-American Junior Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay, making him a GM-elect. He was formally awarded the title in January 2010. Other norms were gained in August 2009 where Robson tied for first at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromso, Norway, garnering his first GM norm in the process. Later that same month, Robson then went on to earn his second GM norm by winning the 23rd North American FIDE Invitational in Skokie, Illinois.

With winning the final GM norm Robson becomes one of the youngest GMs in the history of chess. Here is the records list for the whole world.

1. Sergey Karjakin 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
2. Parimarjan Negi 13 years, 4 months, 22 days
3. Magnus Carlsen 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
4. Bu Xiangzhi 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
5. Teimour Radjabov 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
6. Ruslan Ponomariov 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
7. Wesley So 14 years, 1 month, 28 days
8. Etienne Bacrot 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 14 years, 4 months
10. Péter Lékó 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
11. Hou Yifan 14 years, 6 months, 16 days
12. Anish Giri 14 years, 7 months, 2 days
13. Yuriy Kuzubov 14 years, 7 months, 12 days
14. Dariusz Swiercz 14 years, 7 months, 29 days
15. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 14 years, 10 months, 0 days
16. Fabiano Caruana 14 years, 11 months, 15 days
17. Ray Robson 14 years, 11 months, 16 days
18. Koneru Humpy 15 years, 1 month, 27 days
19. Hikaru Nakamura 15 years, 2 months, 19 days
20. Pentala Harikrishna 15 years, 3 months, 5 days

So far in the Corus 2010, he scored 2 points out of 2 and led alone in Group C with a difference half a point. In the second round, he defeated the host player, Robin Swinkels, and won the 100-euro daily prize as the best game in Group C.