- Fabiano Caruana
Infobox chess player
playername = Fabiano Caruana
caption =
birthname = Fabiano Luigi Caruana
country = ITA ih|USA
datebirth = birth date and age|1992|7|30
placebirth =Miami ,Florida USA
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2620
(No. 7 on the World Top Juniors April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2620 (April 2008)Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992 in Miami, Florida) is a 16-year-old
chess prodigy with dual citizenship ofItaly and theUnited States – he plays for Italy.Biography
In June 2002 Caruana won the Pan-American Youth Championships (Boys under 10) in Argentina, earning the
FIDE Master title.In September 2002, he became the youngest American (and Italian) to defeat a Grandmaster (
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz ) in an official tournament - surpassing the record set byHikaru Nakamura .In 2003 Caruana again won the Pan-American Youth Championships (Boys Under 12) in Columbia.
In April 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 2007, he earned two
Grandmaster norm s with performance ratings of 2634 and 2670. On July 15, 2007, Caruana became the youngest ever American (and Italian) Grandmaster – surpassing the record set byHikaru Nakamura .In August 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 inItaly .Rating
His current rating in the April 2008 FIDE ratings list is 2620 - a year-to-year increase of 107 points.Fact|date=February 2008 He won the Corus 2008 Group C tournament.
Further reading
* "Fabulous Fabiano", by Macauley Peterson, "
Chess Life ", January 2008, pp 30-35.External links
* [http://www.fabianocaruana.it Fabiano's Official Site]
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* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4187 Biography from Chessbase.com]
* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4321 2007 Italian Championship interview from Chessbase.com]
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