Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Caruana in 2013
Full name	Fabiano Luigi Caruana
Country	United States (until 2005) Italy (2005–2015) United States (since 2015)
Born	(1992-07-30) July 30, 1992 (age 24) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2817 (March 2017)
Peak rating	2844 (October 2014)
Ranking	No. 3 (March 2017)
Peak ranking	No. 2 (October 2014)

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian-American chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. He played for the US until 2005, when he switched to Italy, and he subsequently switched back to the US in 2015. He is the current US champion.

On July 15, 2007, Caruana became a grandmaster (GM) at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States (his US record was beaten in October 2009 by Ray Robson). In October 2014, he achieved an Elo rating of 2844, becoming the third highest rated player in history.

Fabiano Luigi Caruana was born on July 30, 1992 in Miami, United States, to Lou and Santina Caruana. He is a citizen of both Italy and the USA.

At the age of four his family relocated from Miami to the borough of Brooklyn, Park Slope, New York. At the age of five, his chess talent was discovered in an after school chess program at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. The same year he played his first tournament at the Polgar Chess Center in Queens, New York.

Until the age of twelve, he lived and played in the United States, occasionally traveling to Europe and South America to participate in tournaments. His first chess coach, from age six to eight, was National Master (NM) Bruce Pandolfini, and from age eight to twelve he studied with GM Miron Sher.

In 2004 at age twelve, he relocated with his family from Brooklyn to Madrid to pursue a professional chess career, playing for Italy from 2005 to 2015. He trained with International Master (IM) Boris Zlotnik in Madrid, and in 2007 he moved to Budapest to train with grandmaster Alexander Chernin. In 2010 Caruana moved to Lugano, Switzerland, and, at the end of that year, started to train with grandmaster Vladimir Chuchelov.