New Jersey Schoolboy Becomes World's Youngest Grandmaster
'01.07.2021'
Nurgul Sultanova-Chetin
About a chess phenomenon from New Jersey - a grandmaster in a group of 10-12 years - the publication wrote NYPost... 30-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey became the youngest grandmaster in the world. He received this title on Wednesday, June 15, at a tournament in Budapest (Hungary), reaching the decisive third and final grandmaster point, which he won over XNUMX-year-old Indian grandmaster Leon Mendonka.
Misra, nicknamed Abhi, has been living in Budapest for the last three months with his father Hemant. He prepared intensively for the tournament, hoping to win the title and break the record of Russian Sergey Karjakin as the youngest grandmaster in the world. Karjakin received this title at the age of 12 years and seven months, his record was held for 19 years. Abhi received the title at the age of 12 years, four months and 25 days, that is, Karjakin's record was broken.
“We are in seventh heaven with happiness that our child is the youngest grandmaster in history. We are delighted, ”said Abhi Swati's mother.
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Abhi's path to the title of grandmaster was not easy: last year he played 35 games without winning a single victory. The June 30 game went on with almost equal chances until the very end.
“There is a critical situation in this title game,” Swati said.
A mother beaming with happiness said that her stubborn and purposeful son trains 12 hours a day: “We are so proud of him! All his efforts and efforts paid off. "
“I can't even describe this feeling. He wanted to be the youngest grandmaster in the world, and now he is, ”she said.
However, Abhi has no time to celebrate yet. He is heading to Sochi (Russia) to take part in the World Chess Championship, which starts on July 10.