United States (pre-2005; since 2015) Italy (2005–2015)
Born
(1992-07-30) July 30, 1992 (age 31) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Title
Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating
2804 (March 2024)
Peak rating
2844 (October 2014)
Ranking
No. 2 (March 2024)
Peak ranking
No. 2 (October 2014)
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history.
Born in Miami to Italian parents, Caruana grew up in Brooklyn. A chess prodigy, Caruana played for the United States until 2005, when he transferred his national federation affiliation to Italy. He earned his grandmaster title in 2007 at the age of 14, and in the same year won his first Italian Chess Championship, a feat he repeated in 2008, 2010, and 2011. In 2014, Caruana won the Sinquefield Cup, recording a 3098 performance rating,[1] the highest in history at the elite level. He transferred his national federation affiliation back to the United States in 2015, and in 2016, won the US Chess Championship.
By winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, Caruana qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2016, where he placed second after Sergey Karjakin. He won the following Candidates Tournament 2018, becoming the first American challenger for the undisputed World Chess Championship since Bobby Fischer in 1972. In the run-up to the championship match, he won the Grenke Chess Classic, Norway Chess, and shared first in the Sinquefield Cup. Caruana lost the World Chess Championship to Magnus Carlsen in the rapid tiebreaks after drawing all twelve of the classical games. He proceeded to qualify and participate in all following Candidates Tournaments: 2020, 2022, and 2024.
Caruana represented the United States on board one at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, winning team gold and individual bronze. In addition to classical chess, Caruana is highly ranked in rapid and blitz.
^"Sinquefield Cup 2014". Chess-Results.com. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018.
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion. With...
reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and the challenger FabianoCaruana to determine the World Chess Champion. The 12-game match, organised...
defended his classical world title against Sergey Karjakin in 2016, FabianoCaruana in 2018, and Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2021. Nepomniachtchi qualified again...
in two matches against FabianoCaruana to win the grand final. Nakamura won Norway Chess 2023 in June by beating FabianoCaruana in the final round to...
Ding elected not to play, and Nepomniachtchi lost in the fifth round. FabianoCaruana finished first in the 2023 FIDE Circuit, but had already qualified...
was held in Berlin, Germany, between 10–28 March 2018. The winner, FabianoCaruana, earned the right to challenge the defending world champion, Magnus...
third-place finisher of the tournament (Magnus Carlsen, R Praggnanandhaa and FabianoCaruana) earned the right to the play in the 2024 Candidates Tournament. In...
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are R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh D from India, and FabianoCaruana and Hikaru Nakamura from the United States. The former three will face...
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So won the Unive Crown Group scoring 4½/6. So tied for fourth with FabianoCaruana and Leinier Domínguez Pérez at the 2014 Tata Steel Chess Tournament...
the World Chess Championship 2024. Since the winner of the Circuit (FabianoCaruana) had already qualified to the 2024 Candidates Tournament via the Chess...
States Chess Federation (USCF) as wildcards. The twelve qualifiers were FabianoCaruana, Wesley So, Leinier Domínguez, Abhimanyu Mishra, Hans Niemann, Samuel...
The participants were FabianoCaruana, Wesley So, Leinier Domínguez, and Hikaru Nakamura. The event was won by So, beating Caruana on tiebreaks in the final...
defending champion Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, FabianoCaruana, Wesley So, and Richárd Rapport. The tour will consist of five tournaments...
player to reach the Chess World Cup final. Praggnanandhaa defeated FabianoCaruana in tie-breaks in the semi-final of the Chess World Cup 2023. He has...
Champion. He defeated FabianoCaruana in the last round of the tournament to finish with 8½ out of 14, one point ahead of Caruana and Anand.[citation needed]...
The other five participants included Carlsen, Vallejo Pons, Aronian, FabianoCaruana, and Sergey Karjakin. Anand finished in the bottom half of the tournament...
winning against Richárd Rapport in round 9 and FabianoCaruana in round 14 while losing against Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Nepomniachtchi (twice). From...
S. Chess Championships. In the 2021 U.S. Championship, he defeated FabianoCaruana who was rated 2800 FIDE and ranked #2 in the World. He plays on Chess...
Isle of Man International, where top players like Magnus Carlsen and FabianoCaruana competed. In 2019, Rensch also hosted the "Twitch Rivals" Komodo Boss...
Carlsen remained the top player in the world, 17 points ahead of FabianoCaruana, while Karjakin rose to sixth. Carlsen and Karjakin played their next...
Topalov and Viswanathan Anand, and former winners Levon Aronian and FabianoCaruana. The 5th Sinquefield Cup was played from August 2 to August 11, 2017...
result was decided in the final round when Karjakin defeated runner-up FabianoCaruana. FIDE's commercial partner Agon was the official organizer, with support...