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Roman Shogdzhiev
Shogdzhiev at the 2023 World Rapid and Blitz Championships. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.
Full name
Roman Shogdzhiev
Born
2/4/2015 (age 9)‎
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Roman Shogdzhiev is a Russian-born chess player who made news in late 2023, at the age of eight years old, by defeating five grandmasters at the 2023 World Rapid and Blitz Championships. Overall, he scored 14/34 in both grandmaster-heavy fields, and raised his rapid FIDE rating by nearly 200 points. He was also the 2023 World Under-8 Champion. In December 2024, at just nine years old,  he shattered the record to become the youngest player in chess history to score an international master norm.

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