Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...

[Doctor Phibes]

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

[LuFins Dad]

There would likely be more, except they are all playing Minecraft…

[Doctor Phibes]

He's three years younger than Bobby Fischer was, although admittedly there were considerably fewer GM's back then.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen managed it at 13, but his massive jump in strength occurred later.

[Copper]

That's obviously a fake name, check to see if he has a Hawaiian birth certificate.

[Horace]

“Grand Master” is triggering.

[Copper]

My builder doesn't make Master suites anymore.

Really.

I noticed yesterday, now they are called Primary Bedrooms.

Maybe this is a special kind of Master, but it looks like woke work to me.

[Doctor Phibes]

There's a women grandmaster title too. It's also possible for a woman to be a grandmaster, i.e. non-WGM, but she can only get the title if she plays men or other women who are GM's, and not WGM's.

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

Beat me to it.

[Copper]

Let's try to get him posting here

[89th]

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Not to mention he’s from NJ. That alone gives him a net age of 7.

[Axtremus]

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

By definition a grand master is not normal.

[Doctor Phibes]

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

You want everybody to be normal? Who are you, and what have you done with the normal AL?

[Doctor Phibes]

If anybody's interested, there's a movie on Netflix, Magnus, that follows the world number 1, and arguably the strongest ever player, as a child. He actually appears quite a bit more normal than you would expect, other than the chess gift.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

You want everybody to be normal? Who are you, and what have you done with the normal AL?

He's pretty concerned with whether people are invited to parties.

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

You want everybody to be normal? Who are you, and what have you done with the normal AL?

Not at all! Just takes a weirdo to know a weirdo.

[Aqua Letifer]

@horace said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@aqua-letifer said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

@doctor-phibes said in Youngest Chess Grandmaster in history...:

New Jersey native a GM at 12

12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu (“Abhi”) Mishra from Englishtown, New Jersey is the youngest grandmaster (GM) in history, breaking the record formerly held by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin set the record in 2002 and went on to unsuccessfully challenge GM Magnus Carlsen in a 2016 World Championship match.

To be so good at such an age is amazing.

Zero chance that kid's even close to normal, though.

You want everybody to be normal? Who are you, and what have you done with the normal AL?

He's pretty concerned with whether people are invited to parties.

Again, it takes a pariah...