Ray Robson

Ray Robson ( born October 25, 1994, Guam) is an American chess master.

Robson was the son of a linguistics professor and a Chinese woman in Guam to the world. A little later, his parents moved with him to Largo (Florida ). Robson got to the age of three the rules of chess from his father. He soon won it numerous pupils tournaments, including in 2005 in Nashville, the " Super Nationals ". Robson represented the U.S. in several Youth World Championships and Pan American Junior Championships zwischen 2004 and 2007. In 2006 he won the National Championship title in the U.S., two years later, FIDE awarded him the title of International Master. Robson is the youngest International Master in the USA. He qualified for the national championship of 2007 adults in Stillwater (Oklahoma) and was twelve years old the youngest participant in the history of the U.S. Championships. 3.5 from 9 points he scored a respectable result. In 2008, he was tied for first in the championship of Florida. The following year he won the U.S. Junior Championship in Milwaukee before Salvijus Berčys and Alex Lenderman. In 2009 he received the Samford Fellowship, a one-year scholarship for the most talented young players in the United States. Robson attended a public school, but is taught at home. His chess trainer Alexander Onischuk. In August 2009, Robson reached at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø its first standard for the title of Grand Master. Other standards he reached at the 23rd North American FIDE Invitational in Skokie and in October of the same year at the Pan-American Junior Championship in Montevideo. Thus Robson met at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 16 days the requirements for Title ceremony and Anish Giri solves the youngest grandmaster from.