(1991-10-01) October 1, 1991 (age 32) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Title
Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating
2671 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2731 (February 2019)
Ranking
No. 63 (May 2024)
Peak ranking
No. 24 (February 2019)
Samuel L. Shankland[1] (born October 1, 1991) is an American chess grandmaster. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018.
Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009. He won bronze at the 2008 World U18 Championship, and was US Junior Champion in 2010.[2] He earned his international master title in 2008 and his grandmaster title in 2011. Shankland surpassed a FIDE rating of 2600 in 2012, and entered the world's top 100 players in 2014.
As a member of the United States team, he won the gold medal for the best individual performance on the reserve board at the 41st Chess Olympiad. He also was part of the team at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, where the United States won team gold for the first time in forty years. In 2018, he won the U.S. Chess Championship, simultaneously breaching the 2700 barrier for the first time in his career.
^Loeb McClain, Dylan (November 1, 2008). "Americans Break Through at World Youth Tournament". The New York Times. Samuel L. Shankland of California
^"Sam Shankland US Junior Champion in bidding war". ChessBase. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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and Blitz). He scored 6.5/9, ahead of Vidit Gujrathi, Levon Aronian, SamShankland and Lê Quang Liêm. He clinched the win by holding Levon Aronian to a...
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players, tied with SamShankland and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. So lost only twice, namely to Leinier Domínguez Pérez and SamShankland. 2022 – The playing...
initiative and reached a threefold repetition draw. In his commentary, GM SamShankland expressed concern about Carlsen's opening preparation, noting that he...
Azerbaijan United States 20 Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, SamShankland, Ray Robson Ukraine 20 Pavel Eljanov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Yuriy Kryvoruchko...
up by a shock first round exit from the Chess World Cup 2011 against SamShankland and a third-place finish at the Saratov Governor's Cup. The year was...
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result in rapid tiebreakers. In the third leg, he tied for first with SamShankland in Pool C with a result of 3.5/6 and defeated him with a 1.5/2 result...
record. His final round-robin game against fellow American grandmaster SamShankland was pivotal. A win or draw in the game would have secured Nakamura's...
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