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Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy , he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster , having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days.
Since 1950, when the Grandmaster (GM) title was introduced by FIDE, one measure of chess prodigies is the age at which they gain the GM title. Below are players who have held the record for the youngest grandmaster; the age listed is the age at which they qualified for the title. This is not equal to the age at which they officially became ...
Former world chess champion (FIDE 2002–2004), formerly youngest grandmaster (1997–1999), formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian player (2002–2005) 34 Hungary: Peter Leko: 2763 2005-04 1979 Formerly youngest grandmaster (1994–1997), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian player (1999–2021, 2022–2024) Soviet Union United States: Gata Kamsky: 2763
A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 12 and is the third-youngest grandmaster in chess history.
Mishra beat the record by three months. Sergey Karjakin had held it for 19 years.
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion on Thursday after beating reigning champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore.. The 18-year-old ...
He is Uzbekistan's highest-rated grandmaster and currently one of the best chess players in the world. Abdusattorov won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2021, becoming the youngest ever World Rapid Champion at 17 years and 3 months, and the youngest ever open world chess champion in any time format, breaking the record held by Magnus Carlsen ...