It is a fact that the growing abundance of chess prodigies – now more than ever, although there have always been some, just like in music and mathematics – is due to the astonishingly rapid progress in the 21st century thanks to intensive training with very powerful computers. This helps to understand why Yadiz Erdogmus, who was still 14 years old when he signed the masterpiece of this video, is the youngest in history to surpass the 2,700 Elo points barrier; that is, to be a member of the world elite.
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Now then, Erdogmus is exceptional among the exceptional. Even more – for now, and saving the age differences – than the Argentine Faustino Oro, now 12 years old, already featured in this collection (when he was still 10). The astonishing depth, sophistication, and calculation ability of the Turkish prodigy in the game we publish today is hardly comparable in history, if we only talk about teenagers; perhaps the one Bobby Fischer won at 13 years old against Donald Byrne is comparable in how amazed it leaves the viewer. You have to reach that high to classify Erdogmus among the early geniuses.
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