Chess record: who became the youngest grandmaster in history - the achievement was recorded in 2021
Grandmaster is the highest chess title, to obtain which you need to fulfill a certain norm.
Thus, a chess player's rating must be at least 2500.
In addition, the athlete must perform well in several tournaments with the participation of other grandmasters.
The average age at which chess players receive the grandmaster title is just over 20 years old.
But there are many athletes who managed to become grandmasters at a young age.
The real record holder in this sense is US citizen Abhimanyu Mishra.
The teenager is now 15 years old. He has been a grandmaster for almost 3 years.
Biography of Abhimanyu Mishra
The future chess player was born in February 2009.
The boy became interested in chess early on and quickly began to demonstrate success in this sport.
He received the title of National Master at the age of 9.
The chess prodigy became an International Master before he was even 11 years old.
Mishra received the title of grandmaster at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days.
The achievement was recorded in the summer of 2021. At that time, Mishra broke the record of Sergey Karjakin, who became a grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 211 days.
In 2021, Abhimanyu Mishra became one of the participants in the World Chess Cup, but lost in the first stage.
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