Who is the youngest chess grandmaster?

The pandemic was still raging, but that tiny pathogen didn't stop the countdown clock separating a 12-year-old boy known as Abhi from history. Mishra was on a mission to become the youngest ever chess grandmaster.
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Who is the youngest chess champion in the world?

At just 16 years old, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is now the youngest chess player ever to defeat Magnus Carlsen in his long reign as world champion.
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Who is the youngest chess grandmaster in 2021?

Abhimanyu Mishra was mastering chess strategy. It paid off for the boy from Englishtown. Now 13, Abhi, as he is known, became the world's youngest chess grandmaster on June 30, 2021.
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When did Abhimanyu Mishra Become GM?

Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess prodigy from New Jersey. On June 30, 2021, he became the youngest person ever to qualify as a grandmaster, qualifying for the title at the age of 12 years 4 months and 25 days, beating Sergey Karjakin's record which had stood since 2002.
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Who is the #1 chess player in the world?

GM Magnus Carlsen 2864 | #1

GM Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion.
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How old was Magnus when beat Kasparov?

The thirteen year old prodigy Magnus Carlsen of Norway caused another sensation on Thursday night when he came close to defeating the world number Garry Kasparov and drew his first game, perhaps the first of many against the world number one.
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Who has beaten Magnus?

Nihal Sarin has beaten Magnus twice in his career. The first victory came in an unofficial event where Sarin beat Carlsen in an Online Blitz game in May 2020. The second official game came in April 2021 when Sarin beat the Norweigian chess player in a 3 minute Blitz format.
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Who is better Magnus or Hikaru?

Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 12 to 1, with 21 draws. Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 33 to 14, with 39 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 21 to 13, with 18 draws.
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Who is the goat of chess?

Magnus Carlsen is currently the best chess player in the world. He is the reigning world chess champion and has been since 2013.
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Does chess increase IQ?

Chess can raise your IQ

Well, in a review of the educational benefits of chess, Robert Ferguson describes a study of 4,000 Venezuelan students, which showed significant increases in the IQ scores of children after four months of chess instruction. Other research has corroborated these results of skill transfer.
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Who is better Magnus or Garry?

Surely, if both players played a match these days, Magnus Carlsen would be the undisputed favorite as he's regularly playing at the world's highest level, while Kasparov mainly commentates elite chess tournaments and plays blitz and rapid games every now and then.
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Was Bobby Fischer better than Kasparov?

Just about everyone can agree that Kasparov and the real Fischer are the 2 greatest chess players of all-time, but there is no consensus on who is better. If you're judging strictly by accomplishments, then Kasparov is better because he held the title for 15 years and took part in 8 World Championship matches.
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Do Grandmasters blunder?

Grandmasters and World Champions are human. They do make mistakes and blunder like 1500 rated players… not as often though.
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Is Queen's Gambit a true story?

The series is fiction, but there is a real pioneering chess champion named Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a grandmaster. Now 80 years old and living in Tbilisi, Georgia, she was pained to learn that the television show had erased her many successes against male opponents.
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Did Bobby Fischer ever lose?

In the 1962/63 US Championship, Fischer lost to Edmar Mednis in round one. It was his first loss ever in a US Championship.
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Was Bobby Fischer a genius?

Bobby Fischer, the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-bred genius who became one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, died on Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. For decades he had lived in obscurity, ultimately settling in Reykjavik after renouncing his American citizenship.
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Why did Fischer stop playing chess?

He refused to play at the Lugano 1968 olympiad, as his demands regarding tables, chairs, chess sets and lighting were rejected. He refused to play the 1970 US National Championship which counted as Zonal Tournaments in the World Championship cycle because they rejected his financial demands.
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Who has beaten Deep Blue?

In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer, and wins the match, 4-2.
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What did Fischer think of Kasparov?

Fischer was known for saying the K vs K games were prearranged, and had called Kasparov an idiot. Kasparov said Fischer's play in the return match vs Spassky was around 2500 level. Fischer was also obsessed with calling himself the world champion even after he defaulted the title.
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Was Bobby Fischer the greatest?

Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time and an inspiration for generations of young players following his world championship victory against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik 1972.
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Did Einstein play chess?

It's well known that Albert Einstein was a friend of former world chess champion (and mathematician) Emanuel Lasker. It's also known that Einstein could play chess, though he reportedly disliked the competitive aspect. That said, he was a great player, even though he never really pursued the game.
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Who invented chess?

Chess was invented in India around the 8th century. Then it was known as chatrang, and changed over the centuries by the Arabs, Persians and then ultimately the medieval Europeans, who changed the pieces' names and appearances to resemble the English court.
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