9-year-old girl becomes youngest US chess master

Massachusetts – Only three years or so since first picking up the game of chess, 9-year-old Carissa Yip can already look down at 93 percent of the more than 51,000 players  registered with the U.S. Chess Federation.
She has risen so far up the rankings that she has reached the expert level at  a younger age than anyone since the chess federation began electronic record-keeping in 1991, a new level she reached in recent weeks.
Her father, Percy, who taught her until she began beating him within a year, said she could reach master level in as soon as a year.
She later demonstrated her ability by playing with her back to the board, reading her moves to her father and keeping track of the whole board in her  head.
She has been called an intimidating player in an ironic way, because she’s  far short of even 5 feet tall. More