Jeffery Xiong

Jeffery Xiong
Country United States
Born (2000-10-30) October 30, 2000
Plano, Texas
Title Grandmaster (2015)
FIDE rating 2666 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2660 (November 2016)

Jeffery Xiong (born October 30, 2000) is a United States chess grandmaster. He is the US's second youngest player to become one, awarded in September 2015.

Chess career

Xiong was aged seven when he played in his first tournament, quickly achieving the USCF title expert on August 22, 2009. He was awarded the title FIDE Master a year later at the World Youth Chess Championships.[1] Xiong was the runner-up to Jason Cao in the 2012 World Youth Championship U12 category.

Xiong achieved his norms required for the title International Master by scoring 6/9 at the 4th Annual Golden State Open in January 2013, 5/9 at the UT Dallas Spring FIDE Open and 5.5/9 at the Annual Philadelphia Open, both in March 2013.[2] His title was confirmed in 2014, when his FIDE rating reached 2400.[3][1]

He became a Grandmaster after scoring 6/9 at the Chicago Open in 2014, 6/9 at the UT Dallas Open in November 2014, 7/9 at the Chicago Open in May 2015.[4] Xiong is trained by Babakuli Annakov.[5]

Xiong came second at the US Junior Closed Chess Championships in July 2015 with a score of 6.5/9, with first place and an automatic spot in the 2016 US Chess Championship going to Akshat Chandra. [6][7] He won the 7th Saint Louis Grandmaster Invitational 2015 with a score of 7/9.[8] He later received the organizer's wild card invitation to the 2016 US Chess Championship, where he finished 6th out of 12 players, with 1 win, 1 loss, and 9 draws.[9][10]

In February 2016 he entered the top 10 players in the world under age 20 and a month later, he reached a FIDE rating of 2600 for the first time.[11]

In July 2016, Xiong won the B group ("Premier") of the Capablanca Memorial[12] and the US Closed Junior Championship.[13] The following month, he won the World Junior Chess Championship, held in Bhubaneswar, India with a round to spare.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 Jeffery Xiong rating card at FIDE
  2. ↑ "FIDE Title Application". FIDE. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ↑ List of titles approved by the 2nd quarter Presidential Board 2013. FIDE.
  4. ↑ "Jeffery Xiong, America's next top chess prodigy". Telegraph.co.uk. 9 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (2015-06-01). "Jeffery Xiong rocks Chicago". ChessBase. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Akshat Chandra wins 2015 US Junior Championship". Chessbase News Page.
  7. ↑ "Grandmaster Xiong, 15 years old, Wins Southwest Class - US Chess". US Chess. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  8. ↑ "The Week in Chess 1081". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  9. ↑ Klein, Mike (2016-02-20). "Back To St. Louis: U.S Championships Fields Set". Chess.com.
  10. ↑ "Caruana and Paikidze Clinch First U.S. Championships". Chess.com.
  11. ↑ "Top List Records". FIDE.
  12. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (2016-07-03). "Looking back: Xiong in the Capablanca". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
  13. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (2016-07-19). "Jeffery Xiong wins U.S. Junior". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
  14. ↑ "Jeffery Xiong and Dinara Saduakassova are 2016 World Junior Champions". Chessdom. 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-11-09.

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