Jeffery Xiong

Jeffery Xiong
Country United States
Born (2000-10-30) October 30, 2000
Plano, Texas
Title Grandmaster (2015)
FIDE rating 2624 (May 2016)
Peak rating 2624 (May 2016)

Jeffery Xiong (born October 30, 2000) is a United States chess grandmaster. He is the US's second youngest player to become one, awarded in September 2015.

Chess career

Xiong was aged seven when he played in his first tournament, quickly achieving the USCF title expert on August 22, 2009. He was awarded the title FIDE Master a year later at the World Youth Chess Championships.[1] Xiong was the runner-up to Jason Cao in the 2012 World Youth Championship U12 category.

Xiong achieved his International Master title norms by scoring 6/9 at the 4th Annual Golden State Open in January 2013, 5/9 at the UT Dallas Spring FIDE Open and 5.5/9 at the Annual Philadelphia Open, both in March 2013.[2] His title was confirmed in 2014, when his FIDE rating reached 2400.[3][1]

He became a Grandmaster after scoring 6/9 at the Chicago Open in 2014, 6/9 at the UT Dallas Open in November 2014, 7/9 at the Chicago Open in May 2015.[4] Xiong is trained by Babakuli Annakov.[5]

Xiong came second at the US Junior Closed Chess Championships in July 2015 with a score of 6.5/9 earning a spot in the 2016 US Chess Championships.[6] He also won the 7th Saint Louis Grandmaster Invitational 2015 with a score of 7/9.[7] [8] At the 2016 US Chess Championships, he finished 6th out of 12 players, with 1 win, 1 loss, and 9 draws. [9]

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