Carissa Shiwen Yip

Carissa Yip, at age 9, was the youngest female in the US, and one of the youngest persons ever, to obtain an "Expert" (candidate master) rating.  At age 10, her current rating is 2157.

Are we looking at the first female US champion?  World champion?  Cute little girl, heart of a tiger.

Maybe.  But just a note:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/carissa-yip-is-not-the-youngest-us-expert

Awonder Liang plays in chess.com.

Thank you for that correction.  I will change the OP text.

The Associated Press/Daily Mail article I quoted also stated,

Five-time U.S. women's winner Irina Krush has the record for becoming a master at age 12.

Maybe there are chances of her becoming women´s world champion, but she is not the only girl with a high rating (and sadly she only has around 51 FIDE rated games, that will explain her 1711 rating, and it doesn´t help to make comparisons with her peers).

As of becoming world champion, there are kids with higher ratings.

Some high rated boys: 

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=24175439

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=14204118

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=12940690

Some examples of girls: 

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=24174041

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=14158230

I wonder what opportunities a 9 or 10 year old girl in Massachusetts has to participate in FIDE rated events?

I mean, she has fifth grade to worry about!

I don´t know, I don´t live in Massachusetts. 

But I don´t think that she has far less opportunities than kids from Ukraine, China, Germany or Uzbekistan.

You are absolutely correct about that.  For that matter, less opportunity than almost any European child player.

Most Europen countries are the size if individual states in the US.  Germany is smaller than Montana.  France is smaller than Texas.  Italy is about the same size as Arizona.

The ex-Soviet bloc countries still maintain their state support for the game.

She has beat her first GM today

http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12787/772

Thanks, I´ll annotate that game in my GM vs Amateur thread.

The 20th century called, they want their wristwatches back! :D

All kidding aside she is very talented and at 2131 she's actually much better than her rating if she defeated a GM, she is the next generation's Judit Polgar! 

It's also a safe bet that she's a prodigy and genius. 

apparently she actually was even up to 2143 this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/at-11-new-master-breaks-record-older-than-she-is.html?_r=0

Thank you for posting that game.

do u accept friends Carissa?