30-year-old American GM Ray Robson is currently rated no 8 in the US.
He won the US Junior Championship in 2009, and later that year, he won the Pan American Junior Championship. He became a grandmaster in 2010, at the age of 16.
In 2015, he finished 2nd in the US Championship, and he has won a number of open tournaments all over the US.He is also a very strong bullet and blitz player.
He is participating in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the first time.