Fabiano Luigi Caruana: Who a chess prodigy who became the youngest Grandmaster at age 14

Fabiano Caruana was born on July 30, 1992 in Miami, Florida of an Italian-American father and an Italian mother.He is a 16-year-old chess Grandmaster and

chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.

At age 5, his chess talent was discovered in an after school chess program at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and he played his first tournament at the Polgar Chess Center in Queens, New York.His first chess coach, from age six to eight, was National Master Bruce Pandolfini, and from age eight to twelve he studied with Grandmaster Miron Sher.

On 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days – the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States. In the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2649, making him the world’s highest ranked player under the age of 18.