Samuel Sevian

An American grandmaster who broke every U.S. age record on the way up. Sevian became a grandmaster at 13 years and 10 months, then the youngest American ever, after already setting records for the national and international master titles.

He crossed 2700 for the first time in 2022, and has since won the Stepan Avagyan Memorial twice, in 2023 and 2026, and the 2023 Chess9LX event in St. Louis.

He reached the fifth round of the 2025 World Cup, played the 2026 Sinquefield Cup as a wildcard, and hit a career-high rating of 2708 in September 2026.