IMKassa Korley

Kassa Korley was born in Harlem in 1993 and learned chess at five. At fifteen he became a U.S. national master, then the youngest African American to achieve that distinction. He has Danish and Ghanaian family roots and later represented Denmark internationally. He received the international master title in 2014. Korley graduated from Duke University and worked for Codecademy before leaving in 2019 to concentrate on chess. He earned grandmaster norms in Charlotte in 2018 and at the Xtracon Open in 2019. Alongside playing, he has worked as a commentator for Chess.com.