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Carissa Yip was born on 10 September, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American chess player. Discover Carissa Yip's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 20 years old?

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Age 20 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 10 September 2003
Birthday 10 September
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1928

She was seeded 28th coming into the tournament and defeated players Sharmin Sultana Shirin and Nataliya Buksa before being eliminated by Nana Dzagnidze in Round 3.

Yip won the 2021 U.S. Women's Championship in St. Louis, scoring 8½/11—1½ points ahead of second place—and defeated four former Women's champions in the tournament, those four being Irina Krush, Anna Zatonskih, Nazí Paikidze, and Sabina Foisor.

This made her the first woman to defeat four former U.S. Women’s champions in a U.S. Women's Championship.

In 2022 Carissa Yip was member of the U.S. women's team at the 44th Chess Olympiad; the team finished as fourth.

In 2023, she qualified for Women's World Cup, won her first-round match, but was eliminated in the second round.

Also in 2023, Yip won the silver medal in the FIDE World Junior Girls Championship.

On October 17, 2023, Yip won the U.S. Women's Championship with a score of 8.5/11.

2003

Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021 and 2023 U.S. Women's Chess Championship.

Carissa Shiwen Yip was born on September 10, 2003, in Boston.

Her father Percy Yip (Pinyin: Yè Péizhào) was from Hong Kong, and her mother Irene Yip (née Cheng, ; Pinyin: Chéng Huálín) was from mainland China.

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.

2013

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 the youngest female national master.

These records were later broken by Rachael Li.

2014

In June 2014, at the age of 10, she became club champion of the Wachusett Chess Club in Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a 7-0 score.

Her first victory against a grandmaster came on August 30, 2014, when she defeated Alexander Ivanov at the New England Open.

At ten years of age, she was the youngest female chess player ever to beat a grandmaster.

Carissa Shiwen Yip vs Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanov (N.E. Open, 2014).

Modern Defense: Standard Line (B06) 1-0.

Ignoring a pin on the b-file, Yip earns her first win against a Grandmaster.

2016

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.

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.

Yip graduated from Phillips Academy in 2022 and then enrolled in Stanford University.

Yip and former chess opponent Irina Krush appeared on a special primetime episode of The Price Is Right that aired on January 18, 2023.

2017

In 2017, she scored 4/11, finishing 11th.

2018

In June 2018, Yip earned her final Woman International Master (WIM) norm, first Woman Grandmaster (WGM) norm, and first International Master (IM) norm by winning clear first place in the Charlotte Chess Center's Summer 2018 IM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 7/9.

In July 2018, she became the 2018 U.S. Junior Girls' Champion with a score of 7/9, as well as the 2018 World Open Women's Champion.

2019

In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States 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 until surpassed by Alice Lee in June 2023.

In 2019, she finished 8th, with a score of 4½/11.

In late June 2019, she won the North American Junior Girls' Championship, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a score of 8½/9, earning the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster 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.

Her performance at the 2019 SPICE Cup, where she scored 5/9, made her the youngest American woman to earn the title of International Master.

2020

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.

In 2023, Yip finished tied for third place in U.S. Junior Girls' Championship.

FIDE awarded her the title in February 2020.

This record was broken by Alice Lee in 2023.

In 2021, Yip competed at the FIDE Women's World Cup, a 103-player single-elimination tournament that took place in Sochi, Russia.