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This DVD offers a full repertoire for Black against 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 and gives you a great arsenal of ideas against all the topical lines.News Puzzles Games Strategy Twitch Other Resources Therefore, the Open Spanish is not only an excellent weapon against stronger players, but also gives plenty of scope for the outplaying of “lesser rated’’ opponents. Black can go for long forced variations that lead to sharp endgames or choose a slower game with more pieces on the board. One of the many good features of this opening is that Black is often the side which controls the pace of the game. In this opening Black opts for active piece play and is not afraid to fight for the initiative from an early stage. The Open Spanish arises after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4. It remains a popular choice among superstars such as Mamedyarov, Caruana, So and Giri and was used in World Championship matches by Korchnoi and Anand. The Open Spanish is considered to be one of the soundest systems in modern opening theory. He'd done strengths and weaknesses analysis of on "Silman's Complete Endgame Course" by age 6. Despite being a player belonging to a generation nursed on computers, a heavy diet of chess books formed his early learning tool. "I didn't win because I'm the better player, I won because you don't know endgames well enough!" Abhimanyu would cheekily retort after the hard-fought victory. Luckily enough, his opponent overreached and lost. The workaround to managing sleep in games spilling into late nights has been for the young boy to develop the habit of napping between rounds in their car or spare room at the tournament venue. That defeat, Hemant says, "Changed everything." It was to be the starting point of the father-son team throwing in hacks, simulations and just about anything for survival in a ruthless adult universe of players. His opponent turned it down and was like, 'No way, I'm winning this!" "Abhimanyu kind of wanted the torment to end, so he offered a draw. "His opponent obviously figured there's no way a kid that young can go on 'til so late so he just stalled and didn't play a move for a whole hour," Hemant says, looking back.

In a winning position, with a pawn up at the New Jersey Open, a 5.5-year-old Abhimanyu once found himself struggling to stay awake at the board past midnight. Learning the sport was all right, but as a young boy at tournaments, the struggle was to match the physical stamina of players at least five times older than he. Since last year, the pandemic forced a shift of the sessions online.Įven before he'd babbled his first words, Abhimanyu was introduced to chess pieces through engaging stories by his father at age 2 and a half. "There was a parent interview as well, and that was perhaps the best day of my life." He was granted special permission to be present in the room when Kasparov analysed Abhimanyu's games, taking copious notes of every remark by the former world champion. "At his age, to have Garry mentor and go over his games is straight out of a dream for any chess player," says Hemant Mishra, Abhimanyu's father. It threw open the opportunity to interact, present his games and seek feedback from Kasparov twice a year, apart from individualised training sessions with GM coaches. He was the youngest of the flock of players who were called, and among the handful picked for the Young Stars programme. Soon after he became the highest-rated under-9 player in the world, he was invited by the Kasparov Chess Foundation for a rigorous three-day assessment in November 2018. The norms can be awarded only in tournaments where at least 50% of the opponents are titleholders, and at least one-third of them GMs.Ībhimanyu has made something of a habit of youngest-ever distinctions and currently holds the record for youngest international master. He earned two norms over two months, and his final norm arrived with a win over Indian GM Leon Mendonca with black pieces at the Vezerkepzo GM mix on Wednesday in what was his final tournament opportunity in the Hungarian capital before he travels to Sochi for the Fide World Cup.įor a grandmaster title, a player must score three GM norms and touch an Elo rating of 2500 and above. In chase of the GM title, Abhimanyu and his father have been camping in Budapest since April this year.

Karjakin, who was a world championship challenger to Magnus Carlsen in 2016, had earned his GM title at 12 years, 7 months.

The tween from New Jersey, all of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days, broke Sergey Karjakin's 19-year-old record with a third norm in Budapest on Wednesday. Abhimanyu Mishra is now the world's youngest chess grandmaster.
