Vincent Keymer Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography

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.

• In 2015 and 2017, he participated in the European Chess Championship and represented the U18 national chess team of Germany and won.

• 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

• He then participated in the Pfalz Open and won his first International Master (IM) norm.

• 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.

• He then received his second International Master norm.

• 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 then learnt chess from Peter Leko, the world’s top young chess prodigy from Hungary.

• When Vincent Keymer was thirteen years old, he won the Grenke Chess Open ahead of 49 grandmasters with 8 out of 9 points in 2018.

• His 2796 Elo performance was the highest ever for his age at that time. This win earned him his first GM norm.

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

• Leonard Barden claimed in the media that Keymer’s performance rating of 2798 was the highest ever by an under-14 player.

• The Week in Chess, a chess news website, called Keymer’s result one of the most sensational ever.

• 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.

• In 2019, Vincent Keymer earned the third GM norm at the Grand Swiss on the Isle of Man.

• 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.

• In 2020, FIDE approved his title.

• In 2021, he participated in the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and finished fifth.

• 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 the third leg, he tied for first in Pool B with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and scored 3.5 out of 6. He then lost to Mamedyarov 1-4 in rapid and blitz tiebreakers.

• He tied for 16th place overall with 4 points.

• In June 2022, Keymer participated in the Prague Chess Festival Challengers and won with 6.5 out of 9 points.

• Vincent Keymer defeated Hans Niemann in the playoffs and qualified for the Masters section next year.

• 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 February 2024, he participated in the Chessable Masters Division II on the Champions Chess Tour and won.

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

  Vincent Keymer at the Akiba Rubinstein Festival

• Vincent Keymer worked on Gukesh Dommaraju‘s team of seconds during the 2024 World Chess Championship. He helped Gukesh to win against Ding Liren.

• In February 2025, he participated in the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam and won. This was the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

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

• In May 2025, Vincent Keymer participated in the German Championship for the first time and won.

• 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.