Christopher Yoo

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Title: 
International Master
Rating: 
2455
Federation: 
USA
Age: 
13
Bio: 

Christopher is a Korean-American Internatonal Master from California. He is the youngest player in the world to beat a FIDE rated 2700+ super GM and the youngest California State Champion. Christopher is also an award-winning composer of endgame studies. He earned 3rd prize in the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Composing, where he competed against the best composers in the world. He also won a gold medal in the 2019 Youth Chess Composing Challenge, besting the strongest study composers in the world under the age of 23.