Carissa Yip

Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player. In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States[1] and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten. In October 2019, she became the youngest American woman in history to qualify for the title of International Master.

Carissa Yip
Full nameCarissa Shiwen Yip
CountryUnited States
Born (2003-09-10) September 10, 2003
Boston, U.S.
TitleInternational Master (2020)
Woman Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE rating2423 (February 2021)
Peak rating2425 (September 2019)
Carissa Yip
Traditional Chinese葉詩文
Simplified Chinese叶诗文

Early life and career

Carissa Shiwen Yip[2] was born on September 10, 2003, in Boston.[3] Her father Percy Yip (Chinese: 葉培照; Pinyin: Yè Péizhào) was from Hong Kong, and her mother Irene Yip (née Cheng, Chinese: 程华琳; Pinyin: Chéng Huálín) was from mainland China.[4][5]

Taught chess moves at age six by her father, within six months she was able to beat him. Soon, she became the best eight-year-old girl chess player in the country.[6] In 2013, at the age of ten, she became the youngest female player to qualify for the USCF title of Expert (rating >2000) in history, and in 2015, at eleven years old, she became a USCF master.[7]

Her first victory against a grandmaster came on August 30, 2014, when she defeated Alexander Ivanov at the New England Open.[7] At ten years of age, she was the youngest female chess player ever to beat a grandmaster.[8][1]

Yip competed in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship for the first time in 2016; she finished 9th out of 12, scoring 4½ points out of 11.[9] In 2017, she scored 4/11, finishing 11th.[10] In 2019, she finished 8th, with a score of 4½/11.[11] In late June 2019, she won the North American Junior Girls' Championship with a score of 8½/9, earning the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster [12] in the process. She subsequently scored 7½/9 to win the 2019 U.S. Junior Girls' Championship, earning an invitation to the 2020 U.S. Women's Championship.[12] In 2020, Yip repeated as U.S. Junior Girls' Champion, again with a 7½/9 score, and placed second in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship with a score of 8/11, a ½-point behind Irina Krush.

Her performance at the 2019 SPICE Cup, where she scored 5/9, made her the youngest American woman in history to earn the title of International Master.[13] FIDE awarded her the title in February 2020.[14]

Notable games
Yip vs. Krush 2016
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Carissa Shiwen Yip vs Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanov. Modern Defense: Standard Line (B06) 1-0. Ignoring a pin on the b-file, Yip earns her first win against a Grandmaster.[15]
Carissa Shiwen Yip vs Irina Krush, 2016 US Chess Championship (Women). Sicilian Defense: Kan. Yip defeats a six-time US Women's Champion. The final position contains a problem-like move.[16][lower-alpha 1]

Notes
  1. Rg5! 1-0. If Black then captures the rook, White's f pawn cannot be stopped from queening, whereas Bd5 loses the bishop and Black is left with a lost endgame against the rook.

References
  1. Robertson, Noah (September 6, 2019). "Meet America's top-ranked female chess player: A teenager". The Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  2. "CARISSA SHIWEN YIP". chessstream.com. 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  3. "IM title application" (PDF). FIDE.
  4. Wong, Ling-Mei (April 18, 2016). "Carissa Yip to play in national women's chess competition". Sampan. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  5. Wong, Ling-Mei (April 18, 2016). "葉詩文參加全美女子象棋比賽". Sampan (in Chinese). Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  6. Welker, Grant (June 28, 2012). "Chelmsford's Carissa Yip is top 8-year-old female chess player in nation". The Sun. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  7. Smolensky, Nathan. "Carissa Yip: Milestones to Master". Massachusetts Chess Association. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  8. "Carissa Yip". US Chess Champs. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  9. "2016 U.S. Women's Championship". US Chess Champs.
  10. "2017 U.S. Women's Championship". US Chess Champs.
  11. "2019 U.S. Women's Championship". US Chess Champs.
  12. "Carissa Yip Wins U.S. Junior Girls, Becomes Grandmaster!". ChessKid. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  13. Klein, Mike. "Yip Becomes Youngest American Female IM Ever". Chess.com. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  14. "Titles approved by 2020 Executive Board in Abu Dhabi, UAE". FIDE. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  15. "Carissa Shiwen Yip vs Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanov". Chessgames.com. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  16. "Carissa Shiwen Yip vs Irina Krush". Chessgames.com. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
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