Ray Robson is the newest American GM!
Robson wins Panamerican, prepares for World Chess Cup 2009
Report by Chessdom.com
Ray Robson is the newest American grandmaster! Robson has won the Panamerican Junior Championship with one round to go. After a 7/7 start, he took a draw in round 8 in a superior position to secure the norm and title (and a rating performance of 3116). For winning this tournament, he automatically earns a GM norm, his third, and thus GM title since his rating is already more than 2500!
1 CARLO Daniel 2091 – ROBSON Ray 2527 0-1
2 ROBSON Ray 2527 – GARCIA Cardenas Pablo 2312 1-0
3 IM IBARRA Chami Luis 2393 – ROBSON Ray 2527 0-1
4 ROBSON Ray 2527 – DIAZ Ciro 2323 1-0
5 GM DIAMANT Andre 2526 – ROBSON Ray 2527 0-1
6 ROBSON Ray 2527 – GARCIA Guerrero Isaac 2156 1-0
7 TRISTAN Leonardo 2412 – ROBSON Ray 2527 0-1
8 ROBSON Ray 2527 – GALLEGO Andres 2404 1/2 – 1/2
With winning the final GM norm Robson becomes one of the youngest GMs in the history of chess. The news was confirmed by Gary Robson for the daily blog of Susan Polgar. GM Polgar commented for Chessdom, “There is no requirement as to how many GMs he has to play. It is an automatic norm if he wins his section This would make him the youngest GM in U.S. history.”
After the news was announced, GM Robson received an invitation for the SPICE Cup A Group 2010. His next competition is the World Cup, where he was among the FIDE President nominees.
Click here to replay Ray’s games from the PanAm Junior.
Ray is awesome!
What’s the point of posting this when it contains no new information and they misspell Robson?
Magnus only got a performance rating of 3002 in his runaway Nanjing win against the world’s best. Does this mean that Ray’s performance here (against patsy competition) is even more outstanding? Doesn’t sound logical. Something is wrong with the formula.