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"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alekhine Nouri (born December 12, 2005) is a Filipino FIDE Master. Named after Russian chess player Alexander Alekhine, Nouri became the youngest Filipino FIDE Master and the youngest FIDE Master in the world at the age of 7."
It seems like this person is who you are looking for.
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Perhaps worth noting why the question has attracted down votes. If you hover your mouse over the down arrow it starts off by saying :This question does not show any research effort".
It is worth pointing out that one of the best places to start your research is this forum. Searching for questions about candidate master titles gives a number of useful ...
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A rather half-fledged answer but here goes:
Check out https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml.
Download the data files for each month from the archive and parse them into a single database or dataframe. If interested in Rapid and Blitz ratings, these have to be downloaded separately from Standard (= classical).
Each month's data contains , <player_ID>, ...
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Ah here: the ff have reached 2500+ according to this but aren't GM:
Lela Javakhishvili
Almira Skripchenko
Qin Kanying
Svetlana Matveeva
Since all the peaks are 2500-2502, I'm just gonna assume the time they got the peaks is the 1st time they got the peaks sooo...
Lela Javakhishvili - 2500 in March 2010 at the age of 25
Almira Skripchenko - 2501 in January ...
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From reddit:
Fischer (28y 3m 23d) 1971 Jul (World #1)
Karpov (22y 11m 9d) 1974 May (World #2)
Kasparov (20y 8m 19d) 1984 Jan (World #1)
Shirov (19y 0m 3d) 1992 Jul (World #4)
Kramnik (18y 0m 6d) 1993 Jul (World #4)
Carlsen (16y 7m 1d) 2007 Jul (World #17) --> appears to be the biggest gap so far
Wei Yi (15y 8m 29d) 2015 Mar (World #44)
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My pet theory is that players in isolated communities (e.g. from different eras, or from one platform to another) can be compared by considering the probability of a draw. We see in high level play that draws are quite common, with more than half the games ending in a draw. High skill players are less likely to make mistakes that lead to a loss. In my study ...
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My research tells me, that FIDE has only started rating players from 1970/71 on.[1]
Background Knowledge
There are multiple databases listing players, for example OlympBase, which contains the ratings of all (?) FIDE-registered players from 1971-2001, after which year, one can consult the current FIDE-list (which doesn't store ratings before then, apparently)...
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Searching on chess-results for "960" tournaments played in 2021 gives the following:
68th PCA Chess 960 Tournament 24th Jan 2021 W23 D0 B21
Первенство Владимирской области по шахматам-960 (rapid) W25 D3 B25
Турнир по шахматам 960, посвящённый 78-летию со дня рождения 11-го чемпиона мира по шахматам Роберта Фишера (rapid) W20 D7 B22
Відкрита ...
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Update: Ah, see the list of all grandmasters. This has a death date column. Click on sex to get all the F's together and then see they're alive.
Wait wiki page for Zhansaya Abdumalik, the most recent female grandmaster and the most recent grandmaster, says (but it's unsourced)
She is the first Kazkakhstani woman, and the 38th woman overall, to earn the GM ...
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How much of the legal position space has been explored by humans or machines would be the question to ask first, or one would need to specify in which probability space you are asking your question.
With opening theory repertoires aficionados, there is the question of how well distributed have past games been in terms of positions explored.
So I you are ...
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I wrote some queries against the database I constructed from the FIDE downloadable data, for post 2001, and Olimpbase for pre 2001. I looked at all players with a date of birth year who reached a standard rating of 2200 or above and asked SQL Server to calculate the age at which they achieved their maximum rating and then asked for mean and standard ...
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Oh wait it's on wiki because 'age' is 'age obtained' (duh!). Ok so the list just goes
Nona Gaprindashvili - 37
Maia Chiburdanidze - 23
Susan Polgár - 22 (Note: Susan Polgár became GM in Jan1991 while Judit Polgár became GM in Dec1991.)
Judit Polgár - 15 (15 years and 4 months)
Humpy Koneru - 15 (15 years, 1 month, 27 days)
Hou Yifan - 14
Bonus: If we ...
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At the GM level, players mostly resign after the second "slow crushing" method. In amateur chess usually a blunder of a queen or checkmate or major piece wins. Before 1000 it is the first around 99% of the time (talking chess.com elo) because they cannot calculate well enough to find tactics.
Even at the IM and GM level players will still blunder, ...
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