Christopher Yoo

Title: 
Grandmaster
Rating: 
2548
Federation: 
USA
Age: 
15
Bio: 

Christopher is a 15-year old Korean-American Grandmaster. He is the youngest ever to beat a FIDE-rated 2700+ "Super GM" and the youngest ever California State Champion.  He recently qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup by finishing second at the 2022 American Continental Championship.  In 2021, he placed 2nd to GM Praggnanandhaa in the finals of the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, which featured many of the strongest juniors in the world.  Christopher is also an award-winning composer of endgame studies and earned a bronze medal in the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Composing.