Abhimanyu Mishra scores his 2nd GM norm, moves to 2471 on the Live rating list

by Sagar Shah - 10/05/2021

12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra scored his 2nd GM norm at the First Saturday GM Round Robin May 2021 with a round to spare. This is the second consecutive event in which Abhimanyu has scored a GM norm. With a dominating 2700+ performance the little boy has managed to pump up his live rating to 2471. He is now just 29 Elo points and 1 GM norm away from becoming the world's youngest GM. Karjakin's record for the youngest GM stands since 2002 at the age of 12 years and 7 months. Abhimanyu has time until 5th of September! Will he manage to break it? We also have Abhimanyu's critical 8th round victory from the event, annotated by the lad himself.

Abhimanyu scores his 2nd GM norm with 2700+ performance

12-year-old chess phenom from the USA - IM Abhimanyu Mishra

12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra is on fire at the First Saturday GM norm May event in Budapest, Hungary. He won his 8th round encounter and with 7.0/8, scored his 2nd GM norm with a round to spare. Not only that, the lad also performed at an Elo of 2703, gaining 24 rating points. Abhimanyu's LIVE rating is now 2471. The boy has time until 5th of September (roughly around 4 months) to break Sergey Karjakin's youngest GM record. Abhimanyu needs 1 more GM norm and 29 Elo points.

Abhimanyu's stellar performance at the First Saturday GM Round Robin, May edition

Abhimanyu has also won the tournament as he has a two point lead over the field.

Standings after round 8

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Bdld	TB1	TB2	TB3	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	9	IM	Mishra Abhimanyu		USA	2424		7,0	24,25	0,0	2703	10	23,7
2	1	GM	Plat Vojtech		CZE	2556		5,0	17,25	0,0	2462	10	-9,5
3	8	IM	Issa Rafat		JOR	2354		4,5	16,25	0,0	2443	10	10,0
4	4	FM	Papp Levente		HUN	2394		4,0	17,00	0,0	2393	10	-0,3
5	3	GM	Pacher Milan		SVK	2437		4,0	13,75	0,0	2392	10	-5,0
6	5	GM	Czebe Attila		HUN	2389		3,5	13,25	0,0	2362	10	-3,3
7	2		Souhardo Basak		IND	2359		3,5	11,00	0,0	2357	20	-1,4
8	6	FM	Bodi Tibor		HUN	2374		3,0	12,75	0,0	2306	20	-16,0
9	10	FM	Seemann Jakub		POL	2288		3,0	10,50	0,0	2318	20	4,6
10	7	GM	Farago Ivan		HUN	2340		2,5	9,00	0,0	2251	10	-9,2

Abhimanyu with his proud father Hemant

A beautiful trophy is always a motivation for a young talent! Abhimanyu with his sister Ridhima. The little one has an online rating of 1600 on Lichess and is waiting for the Over

Abhimanyu with his initial trainers - WFM Anuprita Patil and GM Magesh Chandran

Abhimanyu's 8th round victory analyzed by the boy

Immediately after finishing the game, Abhimanyu came back to his room, took his steam, freshened up and annotated this game for the readers of ChessBase India. Enjoy the youngster's analysis:

Seemann vs Abhimanyu, Round 8

Abhimanyu usually plays the Sicilian Najdorf, but sensing that his opponent might have come well prepared, he goes for the French

The main move in the position (instead of Bd3) is Qxg7, but Seemann goes for the topical line with Bd3.

A very cool move played by Abhimanyu was ...Rf8! It's unconventional, but it works. Black will soon 0-0-0 and the f7 pawn would be protected.

The move g4-g5 was an important error on White's part as the f5 square is weakened for the black knight

Black king moves away from the center. The f6 break is going to come up with great strength.

Black breakthroughs in the center and the king on e1 is massacred

Game annotations by Abhimanyu

Abhimanyu will next play at the GM Round Robin Invitational in Hungary from the 13th of May 2021. But before that he will appear on ChessBase India's livestream to play against the Premium members of ChessBase Account.

You can decide to become a ChessBase Account Premium member and get a chance against the super-talent Abhimanyu with commentary and analysis by IM Sagar Shah.

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