American chess player

Conrad William Holt (born July 9, 1993) is an American chess player who received the FIDE *le of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.

Contents

• 1 Chess career
• 2 Other
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Chess career

Holt earned his USCF expert rating of 2000+ in October 2007 at Derby, Kansas. He went on to achieve his National Master *le nine months later, in the World Open in Philadelphia. In 2008, Holt won the US Cadet Championship, earning him his first International Master norm, and in July 2009, he achieved his FIDE Master *le, crossing 2300 rating for the first time. In 2010, Holt gained his second IM norm in the 2010 World Open.

Holt became a Senior Master in 2011, and achieved his third grandmaster norm by drawing Alexander Lenderman in the 2012 Dallas GM invitational. With 5.0/10 in the event overall and crossing 2500 fide, Holt gained his GM-elect *le, which was confirmed later on in the year.

In August 2014, Holt won the 2014 US Open Championship, finishing tied for first place and winning in a tie-break playoff game.

Other

Conrad Holt is a consistently strong internet blitz player, playing on such chess servers as ICC and Chess.com. While a physics student at the University of Texas at Dallas, Holt was a member of the UT Dallas chess team.

References

External links

• Conrad Holt rating card at FIDE
• Conrad Holt rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
• Conrad Holt player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Conrad Holt member profile at Chess.com
• Conrad Holt member profile at the Internet Chess Club
• Chess-db.com bio