Kayden Troff

Who is Kayden Troff?

Kayden William Troff is the current Under 14 World Youth chess champion, after a gold-medal finish at the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia, in November 2012. A native of Utah in the USA, he also won the silver medal in the 12/under section at the World Youth Chess Championships in Greece in 2010. Additional international tournament victories by Kayden include gold at the 2009 North American Youth Championship for under age 12 in Mazatlán. He also became a FIDE Candidate Master in Mazatlán. As the highest-rated player in the state of Utah for all ages, he won the 2010 Utah Open. Kayden became a National Master at the American Open in November 2009, at age 11 and a FIDE Master in 2011. He earned his third and final norm to become an IM-Elect at the Metropolitan International tournament in Los Angeles in August, 2012. He became an International Master in January 2013. He became a Grand Master at the Saint Louis Chess Invitational in 2014 by defeating International Master John Bartholomew.