FIDE Master Fabiano Caruana, 12 years old from Park Slope Brooklyn, has won the First Saturday International Master Tournament which was held in Budapest, Hungary from May 7th through May 19th. The tournament was of a round-robin format of 14 players with representatives from 9 countries: England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. Fabiano´s final score was 8 wins, 4 draws, and 1 loss. His tournament performance was 2487, which will provide him with his 1st International Master norm.

Fabiano was born in Miami, Florida on July 30th, 1992 and moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1996.

In January of 1998 - at age 5 - he started playing chess at Temple Beth Eloheim.

At age 9, he won the gold medal in the Boys Under 10 division of the 2002 Pan-American Youth Championships in Argentina, and was awarded the FIDE Master title.

On September 28th of 2002, at age 10, he set a new record for the youngest American to defeat an International Grandmaster in a USCF rated tournament.

And, in 2003, he won a second international gold medal in the Boys Under 12 division of the 2003 Pan-American Youth Festival held in Bogota, Columbia.

National Master Bruce Pandolfini, his former coach, is now his close mentor, and he has also studied with Grandmasters Miron Sher, Gregory Kaidanov and Pal Benko.

His current coach is International Master Boris Zlotnik who is the former head of the Soviet School of Chess.