Meet America’s top-ranked female chess player: A teenager
Sep 06, 2019
2 minutes
Just days before her 11th birthday, Carissa Yip became the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster. Pushing her opponent, Alexander Ivanov, to the back of the board, Carissa pounced on a crucial knight and pinned his queen. A few moves later and the match was over.
“I was feeling really proud of myself for that,” says Carissa, who turns 16 on Sept. 10. “Because when I
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