Carissa Yip
Yip in 2026 | |
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| Born | Carissa Shiwen Yip September 10, 2003 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Chess career | |
| Country | United States |
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| FIDE rating | 2486 (March 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2486 (March 2026) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉詩文 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶诗文 | ||||||||||
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Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten; in August 2025 Bodhana Sivanandan surpassed her record as youngest female player to defeat a grandmaster. In October 2019, she became the youngest American woman in history to qualify for the title of International Master, a record surpassed by Alice Lee in June 2023.