Abhimanyu Mishra turned into the most youthful chess grandmaster in history today. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM standard in Budapest, having effectively crossed the required 2500 Elo rating boundary.
Mishra broke GM Sergey Karjakin’s record that has represented 19 years. On August 12, 2002, Karjakin, a big showdown challenger in 2016, got the grandmaster title at 12 years old years and seven months. Mishra brought into the world on February 5, 2009, required 12 years, four months, and 25 days to acquire the most elevated title in chess.
Karjakin told Chess.com, “somehow I am quite philosophic about this because I felt like it has been almost 20 years and it is really too much! It had to be broken. Sooner or later, I was sure that it will happen. I was completely sure that one of the Indian guys would do it much earlier. Somehow, I was very lucky that it didn’t happen. Yes, I am a little sad that I lost the record, I don’t want to lie, but at the same time I can only congratulate him and it’s no problem. I hope that he will go on to become one of the top chess players and it will be just a nice start to his big career. I wish him all the best.”
Mishra went through a while in Budapest, Hungary playing consecutive competitions, pursuing the title and the record. He scored the two his first and second GM standards there, at the April Vezerkepzo competition and the May 2021 First Saturday competition, both cooperative effort of 10 players exceptionally set in the mood for scoring standards.
He couldn’t quickly follow it up in his next three competitions in the Hungarian capital, which fundamentally began like clockwork: the May and June Vezerkepzo and the June First Saturday cooperative effort, held in a similar playing corridor.
Be that as it may, in his last endeavor this month, he succeeded. As a few chess players remained in Budapest for this significant stretch, the coordinators made one final occasion, this time a Swiss gathering called the Vezerkepzo GM Mix.
