Fabiano Caruana, an Italian-American, born in Miami, raised in Brooklyn won the Candidates tournament for the right to play Magnus Carlsen in the next World chess championship, later this year in November.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... tournament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidate ... ament_2018
He will be the first American to play for world championship since 1972 (Fischer).