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Andrew Tang
A Tang 
Photo credit: twitchaddict.com 

Number of games in database: 465
Years covered: 2013 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2529 (2439 rapid, 2596 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2538
Overall record: +31 -30 =31 (50.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 373 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (106) 
    D00 D02 A45 A40 A41
 Nimzo Indian (40) 
    E32 E34 E38 E39 E33
 King's Indian (29) 
    E81 E67 E70 E83 E64
 Grunfeld (13) 
    D70
 Queen's Gambit Declined (9) 
    D35 D36 D31
 Modern Benoni (5) 
    A65 A57 A56
With the Black pieces:
 Queen's Gambit Declined (45) 
    D31 D37 D30 D35
 Ruy Lopez (45) 
    C60 C92 C79 C78 C91
 Queen's Pawn Game (20) 
    D02 D00 E10 D05
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (17) 
    C92 C91 C90 C89 C84
 Catalan (17) 
    E04 E06 E07
 Four Knights (15) 
    C47 C48 C49
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A Tang vs Shabalov, 2017 1-0
   Carlsen vs A Tang, 2023 0-1
   A Tang vs J Martinez Alcantara, 2023 1-0
   A Tang vs C Holt, 2017 1-0
   J Martinez Alcantara vs A Tang, 2023 0-1
   D Andreikin vs A Tang, 2023 0-1
   E Hansen vs A Tang, 2023 0-1
   D Andreikin vs A Tang, 2023 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Bullet Chess Championship (2023)
   PRO League Group Stage (2019)
   Washington International - Championship (2024)
   MrDodgy Invitational 3 (2022)
   Pro Chess League (2018)
   PRO Chess League KO Stage (2019)
   Biel Master Open (2021)
   Reykjavik Open (2019)
   World Junior Championship (2018)
   Airthings Masters (2023)
   Pacific Northwest Chess Center Masters (2020)
   Grenke Freestyle Open (2025)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Grenke Freestyle Open
   J Heinemann vs A Tang (Apr-21-25) 1-0, unorthodox
   C F Koehler vs A Tang (Apr-20-25) 0-1, unorthodox
   A Tang vs M Becker (Apr-20-25) 1-0, unorthodox
   A Tang vs B Huber (Apr-19-25) 0-1, unorthodox
   Keymer vs A Tang (Apr-19-25) 1-0, unorthodox

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ANDREW TANG
(born Nov-29-1999, 25 years old) United States of America

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Grandmaster.

Tang won the 2014 North American Junior championship(1), thereby earning the International Master title and a GM norm. He won the 2023 U.S. Open on tiebreak over Aleksey Sorokin after their Armageddon game, where Tang was Black, was drawn.

References: (1) http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_...

Wikipedia article: Andrew Tang

Last updated: 2023-12-07 07:20:22

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 page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 465  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Tang vs J Banawa  0-1542013SPICE Cup OpenA57 Benko Gambit
2. A Tang vs Sevian  0-1482013SPICE Cup OpenD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
3. A Tang vs L Gerzhoy  0-14520159th Philadelphia OpenA53 Old Indian
4. I Chirila vs A Tang  ½-½3420159th Philadelphia OpenD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
5. A Tang vs S Zierk  ½-½6220159th Philadelphia OpenD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
6. Xiong vs A Tang  1-03420159th Philadelphia OpenC91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
7. A Tang vs B G Smith  1-04120159th Philadelphia OpenE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
8. A Tang vs J Burke 0-145201543rd Annual World OpenD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
9. A Velikanov vs A Tang  ½-½292015116th US OpenD58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
10. S Vibbert vs A Tang  ½-½732015116th US OpenC91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
11. A Tang vs M Brattain  1-0352015116th US OpenA56 Benoni Defense
12. A Tang vs V Panchanatham  ½-½472015116th US OpenD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. A Tang vs Sevian  0-13620154th Washington IntA80 Dutch
14. V Akobian vs A Tang  0-141201525th North American OpenD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
15. A Tang vs O Barbosa  0-182201525th North American OpenD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. A Tang vs J Zhou  ½-½46201525th North American OpenE34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation
17. A Tang vs Kudrin  ½-½282016Dayton MastersD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
18. Z Andriasian vs A Tang  ½-½120201625th Kavala OpenC90 Ruy Lopez, Closed
19. A Tang vs M Nikolov  ½-½43201625th Kavala OpenA45 Queen's Pawn Game
20. J Cigan vs A Tang  0-1412017PRO Chess League (Pacific)C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed
21. A Tang vs J Tarjan  0-1432017PRO Chess League (Pacific)A90 Dutch
22. A Tang vs B Smail  1-0392017PRO Chess League (Pacific)E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights
23. N Raptis vs A Tang  ½-½522017PRO Chess League (Pacific)A06 Reti Opening
24. E Perelshteyn vs A Tang  0-1682017PRO Chess League (Pacific)C47 Four Knights
25. G Petesch vs A Tang  1-0422017PRO Chess League (Pacific)A06 Reti Opening
 page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 465  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-16-15  Caissanist: There are, confusingly, two different Andrew Tangs who are US juniors. There is a nine year old who is rated 1493, but that's not the same guy as the person drawing and defeating 2400 players in the games given above. Those are from a 16 year-old of the same name who is himself rated 2475.
Aug-16-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: I think the moon is possible.
Jun-13-17  waustad: He is doing quite well in Medallin in the Continental Championships. A GM norm watch seems in order, since he's playing his third GM now and has a tpr over 2600 so far.
Jun-14-17  BIDMONFA: Andrew Tang

TANG, Andrew
http://www.bidmonfa.com/tang_andrew...
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Jun-15-17  waustad: The FIDE site has him with 2 GM norms already, though I don't know what all the data in the boxes mean. One is clearly a 9 game norm, but the one for the N A Junior Championship from Kitchner, Canada looks different from others I've seen on the site, so I don't know how many games it is worth. He could get up to an 11 round norm in Medallin, but he may only need 9. As of now he's playing in round 8 and is still over 2600 tpr.
Jun-15-17  sonia91: <waustad: One is clearly a 9 game norm, but the one for the N A Junior Championship from Kitchner, Canada looks different from others I've seen on the site, so I don't know how many games it is worth.> Winning a continental or a sub-continental junior (i.e. U20) championship earns the winner the IM title and a 9-game GM norm: http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.h...
Jun-16-17  waustad: <sonia91> Thanks. A draw against Axel Bachmann tomorrow would then be enough to get him to the point where he would just need a rating over 2500 live and some red tape and fees to get the title.
Aug-15-17  notyetagm: Bullet monster.
Nov-27-17  EvanTheTerrible: Congratulations on GM.
Apr-24-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: GM Andrew Tang (username: penguingim1) recently played a 14 game match vs. Neural Network AI Leela Chess Zero on lichess.org.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqY...

Jun-09-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Leela 25-3
Jul-05-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Andrew Tang will be heading to Princeton. He will also be heading to U.S. Junior Championship.

http://kstp.com/news/minnesota-mome...

Jul-05-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: If only he had been an astronaut...
Jul-06-19  tonsillolith: It looks like Tang has reached a higher bullet rating on Chess.com and/or Lichess than both Carlsen and Nakamura. Even if you don't give much weight to such fast time controls, that's still quite an achievement!

He goes under the pseudonym <penguingim1>.

Jul-07-19  zborris8: <tonsillitis doesn't like maths>
Chess Bullet

Hikaru 3327
Penguingim1 3121


Jul-07-19  zborris8: Spellchecker sorry. <tonsillolith>
Jul-12-19  tonsillolith: <zborris8> It's possible I got something wrong, but I'm certain that Tang's Lichess rating had broken 3200 when I looked at it. I thought I read something too. Apologies, if only I could undo undue sensationalism.
Dec-01-20  Caissanist: He is in fact currently the top bullet player on chess.com, with a rating of 3470 (Naka is third with 3415, Carlsen fifth with 3350). He has some pretty wild gyrations though--just three months ago his bullet rating was 2989.
Dec-01-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: One would imagine there are tremendous fluctuations, depending on the volume put in by a player. A wee slump and whoosh go 2-300 points.
Aug-07-23  EvanTheTerrible: Andrew Tang has earned a spot in the 2023 U.S. Championship by way of winning the U.S. Open Championship.
Oct-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Streamer: https://www.esportstalk.com/news/cl...

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