GM Ray Robson

  • Status:
    Accepted
  • Residence:
    Largo, Florida
  • Rating:
    2607
  • Title:
    Grandmaster
Chess Highlights:
2009 World Team Championship: Silver, 2009 U.S. Junior Champion, 2008 Miami Open, National Champion, elementary division, 2005 Super Nationals, tied for first in 2005 and 2006 Pan American Youth Championships

Bio: Ray Robson learned chess at age 3 and has earned seven national scholastic titles since. For winning the Super Nationals in 2005, he will receive a full scholarship to the University of Texas at Dallas. Robson finished in the top 10 at the World Youth Championship from 2004 to 2007. He defeated his first Grandmaster in 2006, the same year he earned the USCF National Master title.

He’s the youngest GM in the U.S. and is widely considered as America’s brightest hope to become an elite GM since Hikaru Nakamura. Robson studies with super-GM Alexander Onischuk.

Ray's first-ever major open tournament win came in 2008 at the Miami Open. He received his first norm in Tromso, Norway in August of 2009, and he earned his second in Skokie, Illinois that same month. He earned his last GM norm in Montevideo, Uruguay in October 2009.