Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Caruana ( born July 30, 1992, Miami) is an American- Italian grandmaster in chess.
Chess career
Caruana met in July 2007 at the First Saturday tournament in Budapest, his final Grandmaster norm and is thus at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days the youngest American and Italian chess player to have managed so far.
Fabiano Caruana has the American and Italian citizenship, he was born in 1992 in Miami, his grandparents are of Italian descent. In 1996 he moved with his parents to Brooklyn, New York, where he was discovered at the age of five years by the famous chess coach Bruce Pandolfini. His first international success celebrated Caruana at the Pan Championships 2002 he won the tournament in the under 10 -year-olds, the year after the title of the under 12 year olds. In between Caruana wrote in September 2002 in the United States hit the headlines when he was the Grandmaster Aleksander Wojtkiewicz defeat at a Grand Prix tournament in Manhattan's Marshall Chess Club. He solved so at the age of 10 years and 117 days Hikaru Nakamura as youngest ever player, which managed to beat a chess grandmaster in a format supported by the American Chess Federation tournament. 2005 saw the 13 -year-old in Germany a stir when Klaus Junge- Open in Hamburg, he was surprisingly Grandmaster Lubomir Ftáčnik defeat.
Since 2006, Fabiano Caruana plays for Italy. In his first Italian Individual Championship, the end of 2006 in Cremona, he finished tied with Michele Godena the first place, but lost the playoff for the title with just 1.5-2.5. In December 2007, he was in Martina Franca with 9.5 points from 11 games in Italy 's singles champion. His first two grandmaster norms achieved Caruana in March and April 2007, as well as his final norm at First Saturday tournaments in Budapest. His coach is the Hungarian grandmaster Alexander Csernyin.
In August 2007, Caruana won the Hogeschool Zeeland in the Netherlands Vlissingen Open, tied with three players (including Sergey Tiviakov and Ralf Appel ) but with the best fine classification. In the last round he drew against the former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimjanov who was sixth.
In January 2008, Caruana won the C group of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee, he won superior with 10 points from 13 games, two points clear at par Negi and Dimitri Reinderman. In December 2008, he defended his title at the Italian Individual Championship in Martina Franca with 8 points from 11 games. In January 2009, Caruana started in the B group of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee. He surprisingly won the heavily-stocked tournament category 16 with 8.5 points from 13 games, as he very lucky to beat the hitherto leading British Nigel Short in the last round. In December 2010 he won in Siena with 9 points from 11 games for the third time, the Italian Individual Championship. In July 2011 Caruana won with 7 points over 10 games in the AAI tournament in New Delhi ( category 17 ). The Italian Individual Championship 2011 in Perugia, he dominated with 10 points from 11 games ( 9 = 2 -0 ), three and a half points ahead of second place.
In July 2012, Fabiano Caruana won the 40th Dortmund Chess Days with 6 points from 9 games ( 4, = 4, -1) due to better classification ahead of Sergei Karjakin.
Chess team
National
Caruana played in the Chess Olympiads in 2008, 2010 and 2012 on top board of the Italian team. From 2007 to 2013, he participated in four European Team Championships.
Chess club
In the chess Bundesliga he played from 2008 to 2010 for the OSG Baden -Baden and was with this in 2009 and 2010 German team champion. In the Swiss National League A, he played from 2010 to 2012 for the Chess Club Winterthur, in the French Top 12 Caruana played in the 2010/11 season for Evry Grand Roque. The Austrian Bundesliga Fabiano Caruana won in 2009 with the SK Husek Vienna, in the Russian team championship since 2009 he plays for SchSM -64 Moscow and was with this in 2010 and 2011 Russian team champion.