Joshua Sheng
{{Short description|American chess grandmaster (born 2000)}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Joshua Sheng
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| country = United States
| birth_date = {{bya|2000}}
| birth_place = Santa Monica, California
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| title = Grandmaster (2021){{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main227244.pdf|title=FIDE Title Application (GM)}}
| rating =
| peakrating = 2487 (December 2021)
| FideID = 2057360
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Joshua Sheng is an American chess grandmaster.
Chess career
In 2018, Sheng was ranked as the #1 junior in Southern California.{{cite web|title=JOSHUA SHENG|url=https://www.uschesschamps.com/bio/joshua-sheng}} In August 2019, his Elo rating briefly surpassed 2500, satisfying the minimum rating requirement for the Grandmaster title.
In October 2021, he earned his final norm at the Vezerkepzo tournament in Budapest.{{cite web|title=Vezerkepzo GM October 2021 GM-group|url=http://chess-results.com/tnr583210.aspx|date=October 24, 2021}} His Grandmaster title was finalized later that year.
Sheng co-authored the book Mastering Chess Logic with Guannan "Terry" Song, a Canadian FIDE Master.{{cite book|title=Mastering Chess Logic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5RsEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP7|date=September 2021| isbn=9781781946299 | last1=Sheng | first1=Joshua | last2=Song | first2=Guannan | publisher=Everyman Chess }}
In August 2022, he was defeated by IM Semen Khanin in the 122nd Annual U. S. Open Chess Championship in Rancho Mirage, California.{{cite web|title=Day 6 in Rancho Mirage: The Gang's All Here!|url=https://new.uschess.org/news/day-6-rancho-mirage-gangs-all-here|date=August 5, 2022|last=Lang|first=JJ}}
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.{{cite web|title=GM JOSHUA SHENG|url=https://lichess.org/coach/jjosujjosu}}
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External links
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Category:American chess players
Category:Sportspeople from Santa Monica, California