Abhimanyu Mishra, 12, Turns into Youngest Chess Grandmaster In Historical past | Chess Information

Abhimanyu Mishra on Wednesday become the youngest chess grandmaster in historical past. The 12-year-old participant from New Jersey scored his 3rd GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the desired 2500 Elo ranking barrier. “On Wednesday, Mishra received the most important recreation of his brief however candy occupation up to now. He defeated the 15-year-old Indian GM Leon Luke Mendonca with the black items, securing a efficiency ranking upper than 2600 over 9 rounds,” said an reputable free up on Chess.com.

Mishra broke GM Sergey Karjakin’s report that was once status for 19 years. On August 12, 2002, Karjakin, a global championship challenger in 2016, secured the grandmaster identify on the age of 12 years and 7 months. Mishra, born on February 5, 2009, took 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days to acquire the perfect identify in chess.

Mishra spent a number of months in Budapest, Hungary taking part in back-to-back tournaments, chasing the identify and the report. He scored each his first and 2nd GM norms there, on the April Vezerkepzo match and the Would possibly 2021 First Saturday match, each round-robins of 10 avid gamers specifically arrange for scoring norms.

Alternatively, in his ultimate strive this month, he succeeded. As a number of chess avid gamers stayed in Budapest for this lengthy duration, the organizers created one ultimate tournament, this time a Swiss staff referred to as the Vezerkepzo GM Combine. Having been invited to the FIDE International Cup in Sochi, Mishra knew this was once going to be his ultimate probability sooner than leaving Hungary.