Abhimanyu Mishra Indian American chess player breaks Sergey Karjakin’s 19-year-old record. Abhimanyu Mishra is just 12 years and 4 months old from New Jersey has become the world’s youngest chess grandmaster breaking Sergey Karjakin’s 19-year-old record with a third norm in Budapest on Wednesday. In chase of the GM title, Abhimanyu and his father Hemant Mishra, a data management professional, who introduced him to chess when he was just two-and-a-half, have been camping in Budapest since April this year.
Abhimanyu earned two norms over two months, and his final norm arrived with a win over Indian GM Leon Mendonca with black pieces at the Vezerkepzo GM mix on Wednesday in what was his final tournament opportunity in the Hungarian capital before he travels to Sochi for the Fide World Cup.
For a grandmaster title, a player must score three GM norms and touch an Elo rating of 2500 and above. The norms can be awarded only in tournaments where at least 50% of the opponents are titleholders, and at least one-third of them GMs.
Abhimanyu has coaching support in GM Arun Prasad and GM Magesh Chandran, and the months starved of competitions last year due to Covid-19 pandemic have been spent in doubling down in intense training. “Up until now I’ve been taking the calls, but once he becomes GM, he’s free to choose what he wants to do with his life,” his father told ESPN. “Whether it’s the tournaments he plays or if he wants to continue to play chess at all. It’ll be his decision.”
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Abhimanyu has made something of a habit of youngest-ever distinctions and currently holds the record for youngest international master. Soon after he became the highest-rated under-9 player in the world, he was invited by the Kasparov Chess Foundation for a rigorous three-day assessment in November 2018. He was the youngest of the flock of players who were called, and among the handful picked for the Young Stars program.
Abhimanyu was granted special permission to be present in the room when Kasparov analyzed Abhimanyu’s games, taking copious notes of every remark by the former world champion. Since last year, the pandemic forced a shift of the sessions online. Even before he’d babbled his first words, Abhimanyu was introduced to chess pieces through engaging stories by his father at age 2 and a half.
In his chase for an IM norm two years ago, Abhimanyu put himself through a 10-day mock drill at home to wind his body and sleep schedule to California time, three hours behind New Jersey.
Together with his father, he went over preparations until 3 am every night, took walks outside their home to stay awake and then flew to California on the starting day of the tournament.
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