Joshua Sheng

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Joshua Sheng
Personal information
Born2000 (age 24–25)
Santa Monica, California
Chess career
CountryUnited States
Title Grandmaster (2021) [1]
FIDE   rating 2492 (October 2025)
Peak rating 2492 (October 2025)

Joshua Sheng is an American chess grandmaster.

Chess career

In 2018, Sheng was ranked as the #1 junior in Southern California. [2] In August 2019, his Elo rating briefly surpassed 2500, satisfying the minimum rating requirement for the Grandmaster title. [1]

Contents

In October 2021, he earned his final norm at the Vezerkepzo tournament in Budapest. [1] [3] His Grandmaster title was finalized later that year.

Sheng co-authored the book Mastering Chess Logic with Guannan "Terry" Song, a Canadian FIDE Master. [4]

In August 2022, he was defeated by IM Semen Khanin in the 122nd Annual U. S. Open Chess Championship in Rancho Mirage, California. [5]

Personal life

Sheng graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021 with a bachelors in environmental earth science and a minor in food science. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "JOSHUA SHENG".
  3. ↑ "Vezerkepzo GM October 2021 GM-group". October 24, 2021.
  4. ↑ Sheng, Joshua; Song, Guannan (September 2021). Mastering Chess Logic. Everyman Chess. ISBN   9781781946299.
  5. ↑ Lang, JJ (August 5, 2022). "Day 6 in Rancho Mirage: The Gang's All Here!".
  6. ↑ "GM JOSHUA SHENG".
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