Jessica Hyatt
Jessica Hyatt is an American chess player who is one of the highest rated African-American females in history. Hyatt beat two grandmaster chess players in 2021 and 2022, being among the few African-American female players to have done it.
Chess career
In 2019, Hyatt won the New York State Scholastic Championships and was the 2023 KCF All-Girls Nationals Champion. Hyatt is a 5x National USA Youth Team member.In 2021, she defeated Grandmaster Michael Rohde and in 2022 Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra in blitz exhibitions, becoming one of a few African-American female players to have beaten a grandmaster.
In November 2023, she caused an upset at the World Youth Chess Championship, where she drew with Liya Kurmangaliyeva.
In June 2024, she held a simultaneous exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she won all of her games.
In August 2024, Hyatt became the youngest African-American woman to achieve the National Master title, and the second in the world, only one month after Shama Yisrael became the first.