Jessica Hyatt

Jessica Hyatt (born 2005) 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.

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 (rated 1818) drew with Liya Kurmangaliyeva (rated 2236).

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.

Personal life She attended the Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts in Manhattan.