Fabiano Caruana
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| Fabiano Caruana | ||
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| Full name | Fabiano Luigi Caruana | |
| Country |  Italy  United States |
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| Born | July 30, 1992 Miami, Florida USA |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2620 (No. 7 on the World Top Juniors April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2620 (April 2008) | |
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992 in Miami, Florida) is a 15-year-old chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States – he plays for Italy.
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[edit] Biography
In June of 2002 Caruana won the Pan-American Youth Championships (Boys under 10) in Argentina, earning the FIDE Master title.
In September of 2002, he became the youngest American (and Italian) to defeat a Grandmaster (Aleksander Wojtkiewicz) in an official tournament - surpassing the record set by Hikaru Nakamura.
In 2003 Caruana again won the Pan-American Youth Championships (Boys Under 12) in Columbia.
In April of 2006 he was awarded the International Master title, and in December of that same year he became sub-champion of Italy.
In March and April of 2007, he earned two Grandmaster norms with performance ratings of 2634 and 2670.
On July 15, 2007, Caruana became the youngest ever American (and Italian) Grandmaster – surpassing the record set by Hikaru Nakamura.
In August of 2007, he won the strong HZ Vlissingen Open with a performance rating of 2715.
On December 4, 2007, he won the Italian championship with a score of 9½ out of 11 leading the field by three full points and a performance rating of 2740 to become the youngest Italian champion ever.
He currently lives in Budapest with his family, and is the top-rated player in Italy.
[edit] Rating
His current rating in the January 2008 FIDE ratings list is 2598 - a year-to-year increase of 106 points.[citation needed] He won the Corus 2008 Group C tournament.
[edit] Further reading
- "Fabulous Fabiano", by Macauley Peterson, Chess Life, January 2008, pp 30-35.
