This 12-year-old is the new phenomenon in chess

A child from New Jersey, USA is the youngest chess phenomenon.

12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra has just become the world’s youngest grandmaster, taking part in a competition event in Budapest, Hungary, defeating 15-year-old Hindu grandmaster Leon Mendonca.

This 12-year-old is the new phenomenon in chess

Abhimanyu Mishra, nicknamed Abhi, has been living in Budapest with his dad for 3 months, wanting to steal the title and the record of Sergey Karjakin (1990), which has been in force for 20 years.

Karjakin is the youngest grandmaster in the world, a feat he achieved at the age of 12 years and 7 months. Time is running out for Abhi, who won at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days. And he now has until September 5 to write history at chess.

“We are in the stars where our child is the youngest grandmaster of all time. “We are excited,” Swati’s mom told the New York Post.

The road was not always easy for Abhi, who played 35 games without a win last year. The little one trains 12 hours a day on the black and white board and he succeeded.

“I can not even describe the feeling. “He wanted to be the youngest grandmaster in the world and now he is.” About 1,700 people in the world have the title of grandmaster.

Abhi has no time for rest. On July 10, he will be in Sochi, Russia for the World Cup.

“He started beating me when he was 6 years old,” says his father, Hemant, who is a computer scientist.

The coach of Abhi, the grandmaster Arun Prasad, started working with him at that age: “I quickly realized that he was not normal, in a good way! He remembers what he sees, he remembers movements from games of 2015 “…

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