Vincent Keymer
Germany’s highest-rated player and a regular in the world top ten. Keymer was the world’s top junior in January 2024 and reached a peak of 2776 in December 2025.
2026 brought his biggest wins yet. He took the Grand Chess Tour’s Super Chess Classic Romania with 6/9, ahead of Fabiano Caruana, and the Grenke Freestyle Open, which qualified him for the 2027 Freestyle World Championship. He also finished fourth at the 2026 Freestyle World Championship.
At Norway Chess he beat world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in classical, and he qualified for the Grand Chess Tour Finals, finishing fourth after losing his semi-final to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.
Career highlights
- Won the 2026 Super Chess Classic Romania
- Won the 2026 Grenke Freestyle Open
- Fourth at the 2026 Freestyle World Championship
- World No. 1 junior in January 2024
- Peak rating 2776 (December 2025)
Titles
- Chennai Grand Masters: 2025
From the winners lists on our event pages.
Vincent Keymer in The Chess Herald
- Sindarov's Seconds: Abdusattorov, Vidonyak and Likely Madaminov
- Total Chess Rating Puts Carlsen at 2830, 51 Points Clear
- Maghsoodloo Takes Freestyle Friday on 9/11 Among 112 Masters
- Germany's Bronze Traces Back to Bernd Vökler's Chess Princes
- Sindarov Within Two Points of Caruana After Samarkand
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- Germany Ends Uzbekistan's 7/7 Run in Samarkand
- Total Chess Fills Its 24-Player Field With Six More Signings
- Yakubboev's Knight Fork Sends Uzbekistan Into Sole Lead
- Argentina's 28th Seed Shocks Ukraine at Samarkand
- Liang's Shock Loss and Montenegro's Draw Rattle Samarkand
- Caruana's Italian Job: An Old Opening Finds New Teeth in the Grand Chess Tour Finals
- The 'Curse of the Draw' Follows the Grand Chess Tour to St. Louis
- Sindarov's Round-Seven Win Echoes His Candidates Surge as Tan Survives a Near-Collapse
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Profile last reviewed September 29, 2026. Ratings update monthly from FIDE.