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Arthur Guo (born on May 19, 2006) is an American chess grandmaster elect. He fulfilled the requirements for the FIDE title of Grandmaster on July 1st, 2023 at the age of 17. Guo is the highest-rated 17-year-old in the country and is ranked #39 in the world among juniors (age 20 and younger) as of September 1, 2023.

Chess in Childhood
Guo picked up chess by accident from a free community chess class offered by a local library in Atlanta in late 2011. Soon after, he played his first chess tournament in January 2012. In December of the same year, he became the co-champion of the National K-12 Grade Championships held in Orlando, FL, in the first-grade section.

During the 2016 National Open, Guo became a National Master of the U.S. Chess Federation at the age of 10 years, one month, and 6 days. NM David West was his beginner coach. Afterward, he studied with GM Alonso Zapata until he reached the USCF Master level. Guo has been self-training since.

Nine-time national chess champion

 * Won back-to-back (2023 and 2022) Champion for the Denker National Tournament of High School State Champions. Players hailed from 50 states as their high school state champions. Clear first (6/6) in the 2023 Denker (Grand Rapids), the only perfect score in the last 30 years of tournament history.   First place finish on tiebreak with a score of 5/6 in 2022 Denker (Ranco Mirage, CA). Awarded the Champion of Champions plaque with a $5k college scholarship.
 * Led the #6 seed Georgia team to capture the 2023 National Invitational Team Championship.
 * Champion of the 2021 National Open and winner of the prestigious Edmondson Cup in Las Vegas at age 15. Finished first place and scored 7/9 points ahead of a very strong field of 22 chess Grandmasters (GM) and 29 International Masters (IM). Past winners of the National Open include Super GM Wesley So and strong GMs like Illia Nyzhnyk.
 * 2022 National High School Chess Champion, winning the National High School (K-12) Championship (first-place finish) with a score of 6/7 in Memphis. He was also the champion of the 2021 National K-12 Blitz Chess Championship in Orlando.
 * Won the 2018 National Junior High (K-9) Champion as a 6th grader in Atlanta and placed clear first at the 2016 National Elementary (K-6) Championship as a 4th grader in Dallas. Guo became the second person in US chess history to win both tournaments in their early chess career.
 * Starting out, Guo was the 2012 National K-12 Grade Level Championship Co-Champion (1st Grade) in Orlando.

Three-time International Junior/Youth Chess Tournament Gold Medalist/Co-Champion for Team USA

 * Co-champion of the 2018 Pan American Junior Chess Championship (U20) with a 7/9 score in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
 * Gold medalist of the 2016 Pan American Youth Chess Championship (U12) with an 8/9 score in Montevideo, Uruguay. Awarded the FIDE Master Title.
 * Gold medalist of the 2014 Pan American Youth (U8) in Oaxtaepec, Morelos, Mexico.
 * Tied for second (4th on tiebreak) in the 2018 World Cadets Chess Championship (U12) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

2023 US Junior Championship
The tournament featured ten of the "best of the best of America's chess youths," 20 years or under, half of them already grandmasters. Guo came second on tiebreak with a score of 5½.

==== All-American Chess Team (2015-23) ==== Guo has been selected for All-American Chess Team for nine years consecutively since age 8.

==== 2023 Scholar Chess Player Award Recipient ====

Youngest International Master (IM)
On June 24, 2018, at the age of 12 years, one month and 5 days, Guo became the youngest International Master in US Chess History by scoring 7/9 and tying for first at the Pan American Junior (U20) Chess Championship in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His record was broken by another young prodigy Christopher Yoo, six months later.

Grandmaster (GM)
Guo met all the requirements for the Grandmaster (GM) title on July 1st, 2023. His title application is on track to be approved at the 3rd FIDE Council Meeting in October 2023. Guo earned four GM norms including two from open Swiss tournaments. After he earned his first GM Norm by finishing first with a 7/9 score at the 2021 National Open in Las Vegas, he took a whole year off from chess. Guo came back to chess in Spring 2023 and was able to make back-to-back GM norms by earning 6.5/9 points at the Six Days Budapest May 2023 GM Round Robin and 7/9 points at the First Saturday GM June 2023 tournament in Budapest, Hungary. Two weeks later he broke the 2500 FIDE rating and achieved his fourth GM norm with a 6.5/9 score at the SPARKASSEN CHESS TROPHY 2023 in Dortmund, Germany.

Education
Guo is currently a senior at The Westminster Schools of Atlanta. Guo is also a nationally top-ranked policy debater as a Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifier. He won the 3rd best speaker award at the National Speech and Debate 2023-2024 Season Opener and was the 7th best speaker among high school juniors at 2023 National Debate Coaches Association National Championships.