Tal Shaked

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tal Shaked
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 5, 1978(1978-02-05)
Age	46
Country	United States
Birth City	Albuquerque
Horoscope	Aquarius

Tal Shaked Biography

Tal Shaked is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on February 5, 1978 in Albuquerque, United States. Tal Shaked (born 5 February 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is an American Chess grandmaster who is most famous as the winner of the World Junior Championship in 1997.

Tal Shaked eventually quit the sport of chess in competition, however the Blitz chess on the internet. His final competition that he participated in took place at that of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 He had taken the decision to quit the game prior to the tournament because of motivation and uncertain economics of playing professionally.

As the winner at Shaked’s World Junior Championship, Shaked was invited to take part in the super-grandmaster competition at Tillburg, Holland, a field that featured World champion Garry Kasparov, future world champion Vladimir Kramnik, and super-grandmasters Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Alexei Shirov, Judit the Polgar as well as Michael Adams. In the latter part of 1997 Shaked participated for his first FIDE World Chess Championship, winning the first round but losing the second round. The year 1998 saw Shaked reached the semi- finals in the United States Championship, defeating grandmaster Boris Gulko before losing to the eventual Champion Nick de Firmian. He enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with an all-chess award in 1998, Shaked was able to guide UMBC to victory at the 1998 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship as his team’s most highly rated player. Then, he moved to University of Arizona where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer science in 2002.

Tal Shaked Net Worth

Tal Shaked is one of the richest Chess Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tal Shaked 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shaked started playing at age seven and honed his chess skills through scholastic chess clubs from Tucson, Arizona. As as a junior, Shaked won several national academic championships which included those in 1987, including the National Primary Championship, the 1990 National Elementary Championship, the 1991 National K-8 Championship, the 1992 National K-8 Championship, the 1992 U.S. Cadet (under 16) Championship, and the 1995 U.S. Junior (under 20) Championship. He also took home his first title in the year 1995 at the National Open. Shaked took home the Laura Aspis Prize in 1991 as the top rating American chess player who was under 13 years of age and the following year he became the youngest winning the Arizona State Championship.

Shaked’s win at the 1995 US Junior Championship granted him an invitation to his 1996 U.S. Chess Championship. While he was the youngest and least rated player Shaked wowed many with his performance. He was the leader of the tournament after just eight rounds. In the year 1997, Shaked was awarded the Frank Samford fellowship, which granted him to use the funds to devote all of his time to the game of chess. In the pursuit of this possibility, Shaked obtained three grandmaster norms in the span of five months. He was officially awarded his grandmaster title. it would be 10 years before another American player was granted the title of grandmaster. A month after the three norms, Shaked was the winner of his first World Junior Championship, defeating the top seed and the future Super-Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich and scoring a total of seven wins and six draws to defeat Morozevich and the future FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, and many others.

Shaked received his masters in computer science from the University of Washington in 2004 and joined Google as a Software Engineer on 4 October 2004. On 9 March 2019 he left Google in order to lead Machine Learning and AI at Lyft. On 7 October 2019, he went back to work for Google.

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Facts & Trivia

Tal Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tal Shaked celebrates birthday on February 5 of every year.

Top Facts about Tal Shaked

1. Tal Shaked is an American chess grandmaster born in 1978.
2. He became a grandmaster at the age of 19.
3. Shaked won the US Junior Chess Championship in 1997.
4. He represented the United States in several Chess Olympiads.
5. Shaked retired from professional chess in 2006 to pursue business ventures.
6. His highest FIDE rating was 2639 (in January 2005).
7. Shaked authored a book on chess strategy called “Advanced Chess Tactics”.
8. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics.
9. Shaked currently works as an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley.
10. He remains active in the chess community as a coach and commentator.