{"id":1082,"date":"2019-11-14T03:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2019-11-14T03:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T03:08:30","slug":"congratulations-to-the-youngest-im-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the youngest IM in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Success is pouring for the members of the Young Stars program, and a new World Record has been broken! The title of youngest International Master, which belonged to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, clocked in at 10 years, 9 months and 20 days. Abhimanyu Mishra, has just broken that record by a mere 17 days, to clock in at the age of 10 years, 9 months and 3 days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-943\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AbhimanyuMishra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AbhimanyuMishra.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AbhimanyuMishra-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The youngest IM ever!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Abhimanyu achieved his final IM norm in the Chess Max Academy Fall Invitational. A tournament with opportunities to score norms, Abhimanyu needed 50% to score his final IM norm &#8211; a result that he achieved through the surprising method of 9 draws in a row!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-942\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6690.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6690-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6690-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6690-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Abhi, on the left, at a recent training camp for Young Stars in New York City with Garry Kasparov and FST Michael Khodarkovsky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chess does not stop for this ambitious youngster &#8211; he immediately starts on his quest for the GM title by playing in the 2019 Norm Invitational in Saint Louis, Missouri. Congratulations to Abhi and his family!<\/p>\n<p>You can read a more detailed recount of who is Abhimanyu, his way to IM and many of his games in the following <a href=\"https:\/\/chessbase.in\/news\/Abhimanyu-Mishra-becomes-the-youngest-IM-in-the-world\">ChessBase India Article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Success is pouring for the members of the Young Stars program, and a new World Record has been broken! The title of youngest International Master, which belonged to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, clocked in at 10 years, 9 months and 20 days. Abhimanyu Mishra, has just broken that record by a mere 17 days, to clock in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}