Carissa Yip
The four-time U.S. women’s champion, in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Yip beat a grandmaster at 10, then the youngest girl ever to do so, and in 2019 became the youngest American woman to qualify as an international master.
She studied at Stanford before taking leave in 2025 to play chess full-time.
Career highlights
- Four-time U.S. Women's Champion (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Beat a grandmaster at 10
- Career-high rating of 2486 (March 2026)
Carissa Yip in The Chess Herald
- So Draws Niemann in Under an Hour, One Round From a Fourth Title
- So Holds Caruana to a Draw and Keeps His Full-Point Lead
- So Beats Woodward in a Pawn Ending, Leads Caruana by a Point
- So Takes Sole Lead on 5/7 as Liang Falls in 27 Moves
- Caruana and Liang Join a Four-Way Lead After Round 6
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- Woodward Beats Caruana as Eight of 12 Games Are Decisive
- Caruana Joins So in the Lead as Liang Falls to Xiong
- Woodward and Shankland Win as So and Liang Stay Level at 2.5
- So and Liang Lead Open at 2/2, Bottom Seeds Top the Women
- Caruana Heads a 12-Player U.S. Championship Field in Saint Louis
- Sindarov Within Two Points of Caruana After Samarkand
- Liang's Shock Loss and Montenegro's Draw Rattle Samarkand
- GCL's Lead Swings Back to the Gambits on Day 5
- A Second's Difference: GCL's Prodigy Board Controversy
- GCL's Wild Day 3: Gambits Fall, Pipers Seize the Lead
- Carlsen Returns, But GCL Day One Belongs to Sindarov
- How an Estonian IM's Double Upset in Mozambique Became a National Story
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Profile last reviewed September 29, 2026. Ratings update monthly from FIDE.