![]() Sevian's family moved to Massachusetts in July 2013 to make the travel to Europe for tournaments easier. "You have to work fast, and it's very easy to make a blunder," he says. "There's calculations where I make a move, then I have to see what he makes, frame by frame by frame in my head. "During a game, I'm trying to exhaust all the possibilities," he says. The teenager has youth on his side, but not time. "I don't think I'll grow into a weird personality," he says. ![]() Sevian applauds Fischer for putting chess on the map in America and for his brilliant play. "But not every one of them progressed to the top of the rankings." "I was happy when I became grandmaster, but you know there are a lot of people who get to that stage at a young age," says Sevian. That night, the overwhelmed youngster went to bed exhausted while his father partied. That's a full 19 months older than Sevian. Even the great Fischer was 15 years, 6 months, 1 day old before he became a grandmaster. It was a stunning accomplishment that shattered Ray Robson's previous US record by more than a year. 23 at the tender age of 13 years, 10 months, 27 days. "I didn't think I was a high-rated player and he made a blunder."īut he didn't really celebrate when he became the youngest US grandmaster in history (and sixth-youngest in the world) in St. "I was excited I was going to win," says Sevian. As a 10-year-old at a chess school in Los Angeles, he shouted, "I'm winning - I'm crushing you," during an impromptu blitz match against an international master, Greg Shahade. His natural affinity for chess surprised even him. The family moved to Florida, then California, where Sam really became obsessed with chess.īefore the age of 10, he was already the youngest master in US Chess Federation history. "When he finally did, we went, 'Whew,' " says Armen. According to his father, he never smiled until he was 2. He was born in Corning, N.Y., but he was not a happy baby. Recently he woke up crying from a bad dream in which he lost a game to an opponent he had already beaten. ![]() He studies chess problems 6-9 hours a day and sometimes mumbles moves in his sleep. A chess expert himself, he started teaching his son chess at age 4. "Sometimes I can't even reach my own son, what he wants, what he thinks."Ī principal scientist at IPG Photonics in Oxford who came to America from Armenia in 1996. "It's hard for him to open up," says his father, Armen. But his mind is complex, his personality sweet but shy. His family lives in an apartment in Southbridge, 10 minutes off the Mass. Searching for Sam Sevian is both easy and impossible. The United States has not had a world chess champion since Bobby Fischer in 1972-75. I was sure one of the Indian guys would do it much earlier, and I was lucky that it didn’t happen."My ultimate goal is to become world champion," he says. “Somehow, I am quite about this because I felt like it has been almost 20 years and it is really too much,” says Karjakin. While Karjakin has expressed feeling “a little sad” about being narrowly beaten by just three months, he was still expressed full support for Mishra’s latest accomplishment. The title of youngest chess grandmaster in history was previouly held by Sergey Karjakin for almost 20 years. ![]() And less than two years after at the age of 10 years and nine months, Mishra secured the honour of youngest international chess master in history. By the time he turned nine, he was the youngest national chess master. At age seven, he was already the United States Chess Federation’s youngest expert. Of course, this isn’t exactly the first history-making honour achieved by Abhimanyu Mishra. RELATED: The Most Intense Chess Games In History Although you could also argue this was earned the moment he began moving the pieces around in earnest at the barely-sentient age of two. Played virtually non-stop for weeks on end with a day’s break between tournaments at most, this is certainly well deserved. There, the pre-teen prodigy has been in “continuous action” since April, racking up the Ws, and breaking past the 2,500 overall rating. Mishra was in danger of missing his window, but a well-time decision to relocate the entire family to Hungary by his father Hemant gave him a fighting chance.
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