List of Child Prodigies - Games

Games

• Garry Kasparov was a chess child prodigy who ranked in the top 15 players in the world at age 16 and is recognized by many as the greatest chess player of all time.
• Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship at 14 years old and achieved the title of Grandmaster, during the World-Championship-qualifications cycle, at 15 years old, and won title of World Chess Champion in 1972.
• Fabiano Caruana, a chess prodigy discovered at five years old, became the youngest-ever American and Italian Grandmaster (Dual citizenship), in 2007, at 14 years old.
• José Raúl Capablanca was one of the best chess players of all time.
• Cho Hunhyun was a professional go player at nine years old.
• Andy Costello, a chess prodigy who went on to become a chess boxer.
• Willie Mosconi, nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards", played against professionals at six years old.
• Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan, a snooker player, scored his first century break at 10 years old, his first maximum at 15 years old, and was the youngest-ever winner of a ranking event at 17 years old.
• Nicholas Patterson, a chess prodigy who went on to become a mathematician.
• Magnus Carlsen, at the September–October 2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament has been described as one of the greatest in history and lifted him to an Elo rating of 2801, making him the fifth player to achieve a rating over 2800 – and aged 18 years 10 months at the time, by far the youngest to do so. He peaked at 2837, the second highest rating of all time.
• Judith Polgar, a chess prodigy (and the strongest woman chess player in history) who became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest of the time.
• Sergey Karjakin, a chess prodigy who holds the record for both the youngest International Master and the youngest Grandmaster. He also peaked at top 5 in the world.