Chess prodigy ??

Guys,

There's a 17 year old kid in my locale who has an 1800 rating consistently. What strikes me as phenomenal is that he can after any given game no matter how many moves in the game, even as much as 50 or more, and even up to aproximately 3 games or more, he can reset the board and show all the moves made from start to finish. What do you think of this kid? Future GM or IGM? Does he have a chance at world champ if he keeps growing rapidly?

I'm pretty sure any player can reset the board and show all the moves from start to finish. I've done that, while quite drunk 

Sorry, but 1800 at 17 years old is nothing special there are lots of 17 year old kids with much higher ratings he may one day be a master but GM i doubt it and World champion i would have to say no.

17 year old 1800 is nothing special in terms of a prodigy, sorry.

Most club players (even below 1800) can set up positions from their games.  Many can replay the game move for move.  Once while driving home from a club I wanted to know how many games I'd played this guy.  By recalling the different openings and middle game ideas I was able to know that we'd played 10 games.

The kid is a good player in my personal vocabulary, and I'm sure I'd find him to be a tough opponent to beat, but nothing you've described is phenomenal

If you really want to be impressed ask him to play you in a blindfold game, where you get to see the board and he doesn't, and you play by calling out the moves.  Sounds like he'd be able to do it :)

I'm only rated 1852 or so (USCF) and after my tournament games I can usually recall every moved played.  So I have to agree... no, it's not that hard to do at all.  In fact, I would expect a much younger player to be able to do it easier than I can.

A year and a half ago a large local Under 1800 Section was won by an eight-year-old girl.  But I don't even think she is considered a prodigy.

Fischer was U.S. Champion at age 14.  Now THAT's a prodigy for you.

Yes, a teenager should certainly be titled already if you want to even consider the word prodigy.  An older teen (17) should at the least be very close to GM.

I think the current generation of top players were all GMs well before 15 years of age.  The youngest became a GM at 12, Sergey Karjakin.

Doesn't Awonder Liang, age 8, already have a 2000+ rating? 

Ray Robson is 17 and has been a GM for a while now.  So let's get real here..

Haha, 1800 at 17 years of age a chess prodigy? Not even in the ballpark.

1800 at 7 years of age would still be too low to be considered a serious prodigy.

At 17 years old, if he isn't already a GM, he has almost no chance whatsoever of ever being an elite chess player.

yeah, this kid will be a gm soon.

So, you would agree he's gifted or very talented but not prodigous right?

Remember Reshevsky, Sameul to be specifid. He played round table matches if I recall correct at age 8. Now that's phenomenal.

No, there was this guy named Leonid Stein, who became a chess master at 24, and soon after became an elite player.

So, he isn't a prodigy, but he has a chance of becoming a GM

in my chess club there's a 10 year old with a rating of 2150

yasser seiriwan started chess at 14

Shows you how bad I am. I can't even remember the last move I made in a game I'm playing right then.

He's not a top player so :p~~~

But anyway, good point.  If the OP says this kid started 2 years ago, then I'd be willing to consider it... I was assuming thought that what impressed him was that a 17 yr old was 1800, I figured he would have mentioned if the kid was only 2 years into the game.

He was one.

There is nothing to say we cannot become a GM. But it needs a lot of patience, perseverence, little bit of talent and mostly the PASSSSIOON. Passion is what comes naturally at early age. We don't  need to talk about only chess but any work of mastery it starts at very early age. And with same mentality and approaches we can achieve the same level . We only need to have an extreme passion and favourable mental and physical environment.

let's have a love for chess and start now. You and i will get that with only and only with pure love for the game.