14 October, 2009 [ 12:42 ]
Peru’s Jorge Cori became the youngest Grand Master in the world
LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra
The Peruvian chess player Jorge Cori became the youngest Grand Master (GM) in the world.
Aged 14 years and 2 months, the national chess player won this title after winning two Grandmaster norms in the Continental Chess Championships of the Americas 2009 in Brazil, and now in the International Marcel Duchamp Championship in Argentina.
Cori’s participation for the title of Grand Master took three months of preparation in Europe, where he had a private tour with Spanish with Javier Moreno.
Meanwhile, his sister Daysi, which already holds at age 16 the title of GM, has now entered the ranking of the 80 best chess players in the world and is acknowledged as one of the best players in the adult category.
Source: http://www.livinginperu.com
Here are the top Peruvian players:
| 1 | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | g | PER | 2644 | 27 | 1967 |
| 2 | Cordova, Emilio | g | PER | 2570 | 10 | 1991 |
| 3 | Cruz, Cristhian | m | PER | 2531 | 36 | 1992 |
| 4 | Castaneda, Georgui | m | PER | 2509 | 11 | 1976 |
| 5 | Munoz Pantoja, Miguel | m | PER | 2479 | 69 | 1975 |
| 6 | Cori, Jorge | f | PER | 2445 | 39 | 1995 |
| 7 | Oblitas, Carlomagno | m | PER | 2443 | 7 | 1970 |
| 8 | Cruz, Filemon | f | PER | 2404 | 27 | 1964 |
| 9 | Cornejo, Max | f | PER | 2397 | 24 | 1989 |
| 9 | Terry, Renato | f | PER | 2397 | 9 | 1992 |
| 11 | Pacheco, Marco | f | PER | 2387 | 0 | 1983 |
| 12 | Cori T., Deysi | wm | PER | 2361 | 39 | 1993 |
Is he the youngest ever?
Duh, In Peru.
Way to steal Robson’s thunder.
Strange article, particularly about the girl. In the article she is referred to as Daysi whereas in the table it is Deysi. Also, she is (only) WGM, which is casually “forgotten”. Though it is really nice to have coverage of chess in the news it is to bad that quite often is seems the folks reporting about it are not qualified and / or not interested…
Is a 2500 rating still required for the GM title? He’s never reached that. If so, then he hasn’t gotten to GM yet.
http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=3802272
shows Cori is no league with either Ray or Ben.
Youngest ??. What about Karjakin 12 years 7 months ?
Karjakin is 18 now dear !!
I agree with poster : his sister is NO GM.
Yes, this article is a little strange. Let’s check the facts guys!
Peru in FIDE rating list:
http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=PER
what’s even worse is probably that Susan put it on her blog as is, even though she has the knowledge… 🙁
Even though he has achieved 3 GM norms, he will not be awarded GM title until he has a rating of 2500 or over, according to FIDE regulations:-
1.5 Requirements for award of the title, having achieved norms
1.50 Two or more norms in events covering at least 27 games.
1.51 If a norm is sufficient for more than one title, then it may be used as part of the application for both.
1.52 To have achieved at some time or other a rating as follows:
GM ≥2500
IM ≥2400
WGM ≥2300
WIM ≥2200
His current rating is 2445.
It is sufficient that your “active” rating passses 2500. In other words, if his recent results not yet counted, brings him 55 rating points, he becomes GM when he gets it, and it count retrospectively from the day he completed his norms. Also, if he crosses 2500 after one tournament, then he drops below, before it is published, it still counts. I know cases where this has happened.
‘I know cases where this has happened.’
Have you reported them to the local police?
I know 3 of them (and have played 2) who play regularly in Spain. Filemon Cruz, his son Christian Cruz, and the fastest player this side of the Mississippi Miguel Munoz.
All 3 of them are, on top of being great players, very good people.
The 2445 is the highest rating he has achieved so far. Accoding to FIDE database, he has no activity during the November period to give him the extra rating points. I don’t think the current tournament (International Marcel Duchamp Championship in Argentina) will bring him the 55 points needed to become a GM.
Remember he is only 14 years and 2 months old.