Budapest: Abhimanyu Mishra, who recently became the youngest chess grandmaster in history, said that the main goal was to become a world champion.
The 12-year-old from New Jersey on Wednesday printed his third GM norm in Budapest, after crossing the 2500 elo rating barriers needed.
Abhimanyu knew the road in front had long so he was now concentrating to become a super grandmaster in the next three years.
“My main goal is to become a world champion but my next intermediary goal is to become a super grandmaster and I hope for it before the age of 15,” he told Ani.
Finally, the biggest checkmated opponent (ongoing pandemic) which stopped me for 14 months.
Thank you everyone for …
https://t.co/xn6iuyuhdm8- abhimanyu.mishra.chess (the youngest gm in the world) (@chessmishra) 1625093127000abhimanyu won the biggest game of a short but sweet career so far.
He defeated GM India Leon Luke Mendonca who was 15 years old with black pieces, securing performance rankings higher than 2600 more than nine rounds.
The youngest chess grandmaster describes it as a “extraordinary” feeling and admits it is a tight game for him.
“When I play games, I don’t think of this but of course it is an extraordinary feeling.
The last match against Leon Luke Mendonca is a very tight game, somehow I can win it,” he said.
“Feeling that big pressure finally lifted.
Because we were here for the past two months and I lost the game with one or half point.
So it feels fun to finally finish things,” he added.
Abhimanyu, who began playing chess when he was two and a half years old, champion idol Ches Champion Magnus Carlsen.
“What I like about chess is that you can destroy your opponents without harming them.
My role model is Magnus Carlsen ……..
The way he dominates after becoming an extraordinary world champion,” Abhimanyu said.
, “My parents really supported me, without them I couldn’t imagine so far.
With hard work you can reach wherever you want,” he added.
Speaking of world champions five times Viswanathan Anand, Abhimanyu said, “Yes, I see his tweet congratulations to me.
This is a different feeling when someone from his caliber congratulas you.” Want to meet him immediately.
“Thank you very much @ vishy64theking ? https://t.co/bh4vn0voc- abhimanyu.mishra.chess (the youngest gm in the world) (@chessmishra) 1625235610000” It will be an extraordinary opportunity to play against it because the strength of the top player is on outside everything.
It will also give me a great learning opportunity, “he added.
Abhimanyu broke the GM record of Sergey Karjakin which was established for 19 years.
On August 12, 2002, Karjekin, Championship Challenger in 2016, secured the grandmaster title at the age of 12 and seven months.
Born February 5, 2009, Abhimanyu took 12.4 years and 25 days to get the highest degree in chess.
“This year I did not go to school as last year I finished two values ​​in one year.
We know that it will be a difficult goal especially in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, “Abhimanyu said.” In the last 1.5 years, I used to practice chess for at least 12 hours every day.
And when we watched the lumbers and limitations that were induced by Covid, I worked very hard to improve my skills instead of wasting time, “he signed.