Awonder Liang and Susan Polgar

From Awonder’s Dad:

For the US record on this, GM Samuel Sevian became an IM when he was 12 years, 10 months and 16 days old. Sevian was born on December 26, 2000. He gained his IM title by crossing the 2400 FIDE rating threshold after he played in the “First Saturday GM Nov. 2013” Tournament (Nov. 2-12, 2013) in Budapest, Hungary, coupled with the three IM norms he obtained earlier. 
Awonder was born on April 9, 2003. He crossed FIDE 2400 on June 14, 2015 when the 12 years old Awonder won the US Junior Open U21 (June 12-14, 2015) by the score of 6-0 in Schaumburg, Illinois. He has now earned his third and last IM norm at the Dallas Fall FIDE tournament (Nov. 20-25, 2015) in Dallas, Texas. Awonder was 12 years, 7 months and 16 days old at as of today (November 25, 2015). 
Therefore, Awonder has broken Samuel Sevian’s record by three months to become the youngest ever chess international master (IM) in the United States of America. 

Final standings

Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts.  TB1  TB2  TB3
1 12 GM Holt Conrad USA 2521 6,5 48,0 38,0 33,75
2 7 GM Xiong Jeffery USA 2550 6,5 47,5 37,5 33,50
3 6 GM Popilski Gil ISR 2552 6,5 46,5 36,5 31,75
4 5 GM Rambaldi Francesco ITA 2557 6,5 45,0 35,0 31,25
5 2 GM Sevian Samuel USA 2573 6,0 45,0 35,0 29,00
6 17 GM Berczes David HUN 2492 5,5 49,0 39,5 27,50
7 16 GM Grover Sahaj IND 2498 5,5 48,5 38,5 27,00
8 27 IM Javakhadze Zurab GEO 2417 5,5 44,5 34,5 27,50
9 10 GM Arribas Lopez Angel ESP 2526 5,5 44,5 34,0 25,25
10 4 GM Indjic Aleksandar SRB 2564 5,5 44,0 34,5 25,25
11 14 IM Chandra Akshat USA 2509 5,5 44,0 34,0 24,75
12 3 GM Macieja Bartlomiej POL 2565 5,5 43,0 33,5 26,00
13 13 GM Perelshteyn Eugene USA 2515 5,0 49,5 38,5 27,00
14 8 GM Kadric Denis BIH 2537 5,0 48,0 37,5 24,25
15 20 IM Zajic Milan SRB 2480 5,0 43,0 34,0 21,75
16 32 FM Liang Awonder USA 2373 5,0 41,5 33,5 20,75
17 19 IM Drozdowski Kacper POL 2481 5,0 41,0 31,5 20,75
18 21 IM Nakar Eylon ISR 2476 5,0 40,5 32,5 20,25
19 11 GM Iotov Valentin BUL 2524 5,0 40,0 31,0 20,75
20 15 GM Raznikov Danny ISR 2507 4,5 44,0 34,0 20,00
21 24 IM Bartholomew John USA 2448 4,5 41,0 32,5 17,75
22 25 IM Kiewra Keaton F USA 2445 4,5 41,0 32,0 18,50
23 1 GM Stukopin Andrey RUS 2574 4,5 40,0 31,0 19,00
24 30 IM Ynojosa Aponte Felix Jose VEN 2404 4,5 40,0 30,5 17,00
25 22 IM Gurevich Daniel USA 2472 4,5 39,5 30,0 18,25
26 18 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2483 4,5 38,5 29,0 17,75
27 35 NM Ishkanov Tigran USA 2272 4,5 33,5 26,0 14,75
28 34 FM Panchanatham Vignesh USA 2307 4,0 45,5 35,0 18,75
29 33 NM Patel Advait USA 2329 4,0 45,0 35,0 18,75
30 26 IM Li Ruifeng USA 2444 4,0 41,5 33,0 15,75
31 36 WIM Danelia Mariam GEO 2266 4,0 37,0 29,0 13,25
32 31 IM Yang Kaiqi CHN 2375 4,0 31,5 24,0 12,00
33 23 IM Stremavicius Titas LTU 2472 4,0 30,5 23,5 11,50
34 29 IM Vazquez Guillermo PAR 2406 3,5 42,5 32,5 14,50
35 40 NM Lin Dachey USA 2213 3,5 42,0 32,0 15,25
36 41 IM Calugar Arthur CAN 2206 3,5 35,0 27,0 10,50
37 28 NM Radovanovic Nikola SRB 2416 3,5 34,0 26,0 10,75
38 37 WIM Camacho Chardine Cheradee PHI 2258 3,5 32,0 26,0 9,75
39 39 NM Pamatmat Jarod M USA 2232 3,0 35,0 28,0 9,50
40 44 NM Ghatti Sanjay USA 2151 3,0 33,5 26,5 8,00
41 9 GM Troff Kayden W USA 2533 2,5 40,0 31,0 11,25
42 43 NM Coraretti Benjamin USA 2172 2,5 34,5 28,0 7,00
43 42 NM Toolin Christopher USA 2202 2,0 36,5 28,5 7,50
44 45 Liu Kevin USA 1665 0,0 30,0 23,5 0,00
45 38 NM Safin Artur K USA 2235 0,0 26,5 20,0 0,00
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