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Some Lesser Known Facts About Vincent Keymer

• Vincent Keymer grew up in Saulheim, Rheinhessen.

• At the age of four, he began learning the piano.

• When he was five years old, Vincent Keymer accidentally discovered a chessboard at home and insisted on learning the game of chess from his parents.

• After that, he liked the game so much that he practised it every day to understand it and learn new techniques.
  

  An old picture of Vincent Keymer

• When Vincent Keymer was six years old, he qualified for the German U10 Championships with his first three tournaments.

• He then participated in the Jugend Musiziert competition and won a first prize as a solo.

• In 2014, when Vincent Keymer was nine years old, he became German U10 Champion for the second time. This led to his nomination for the U18 national chess team.

• When he was ten years old, Vincent Keymer became the European U18 team champion and was featured on the cover of Schach Magazin, a German chess magazine. The magazine mentioned him as Germany’s best chess talent after Emanuel Lasker.

  

  Vincent Keymer on the cover of Schach Magazin

• After one year, at the Vienna Open, Vincent Keymer missed his first Grand Master (GM) norm as his opponents’ average rating was too low. There, he defeated many grandmasters and took 3rd place with a 2601 Elo performance.

• In 2016, Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster, said in the media that Vincent Keymer was an exceptional chess player.
  

  Vincent Keymer with Garry Kasparov

• In 2017, when Vincent Keymer was twelve years old, he participated in the German Chess Championship and finished fourth. He earned his third IM norm there and became the youngest German International Master.

• He scored one-and-a-half more points than needed for the GM norm.

• After four months, Vincent Keymer participated in the Xtracon Open in Elsinore and earned his second GM norm.
  

  An old picture of Vincent Keymer

• In the next months, he came very close to his final GM norm many times but missed it.

• From 10 October 2019 to 21 October 2019, Keymer played in the 2019 FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament, where he scored 4.5 out of 11 points (1 win, 3 losses, 7 draws). In this match, he earned his third and final norm for the Grandmaster title.

• Vincent Keymer then became the youngest German ever to earn the Grandmaster title.

• From February 2022 to March 2022, Vincent Keymer played in the FIDE Grand Prix, where in the first leg, he placed fourth in Pool C with 1.5 out of 6 points.

• In 2022, he participated in the World Rapid Chess Championship, where he finished runner-up. He defeated Caruana and Nepomniachtchi and scored 9.5 out of 13 points.

• In August 2024, he won at the Akiba Rubinstein Festival.
  

  Vincent Keymer at the Akiba Rubinstein Festival

• During this tournament, he defeated Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals and Fabiano Caruana in the final.

• In August 2025, he won the Chennai Grand Masters with one round left. He finished ahead of Anish Giri and Arjun Erigaisi.

• After that, he entered the world’s top ten in live chess ratings for the first time.
  

  Vincent Keymer at the Chennai Grand Masters

• In September 2025, Vincent Keymer qualified for the 2026 Candidates Tournament after a winning endgame against German chess player Matthias Blübaum in the second-to-last round of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament in 2025.