Fourteen-year-old Yağız Kaan Erdogmus entered the FIDE world top 50 with a 2668 rating. The Turkish grandmaster tied for 49th–50th place with David Howell.

The decisive result came in the fifth game of the “Clash of the Generation” match in Monaco on December 7, following four consecutive draws. The victory added 10 rating points to Erdogmus’s live rating, securing his position among the world’s top 50 players. Erdogmus now progresses ahead of Magnus Carlsen’s rating trajectory at the same age. Carlsen first entered the world top 50 in July 2006 at 15 years old.

The “Clash of the Generation” is a showmatch series pairing a young prodigy against an experienced grandmaster. The match between French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and 14-year-old GM Yağız Kaan Erdogmus was the third in the series and took place from December 3rd to 8th.