Why Abhimanyu Mishra, the world’s youngest grandmaster, feels his career has stagnated

The boy facing questions from the media believes his career is stagnating. At the age of 16. It’s an age where athletes in other sports are still taking their first decisive steps. But such is the nature of chess these days, and such is the rapid pace at which things have happened for Abhimanyu Mishra, that a slowdown for him feels like stagnation.

If his career had continued in the fast lane, Abhimanyu Mishra estimates that he would have been rated around 2,730 by now. The Indian-origin American grandmaster , at seven, became the youngest person in the US to hit 2,000 ELO rating, then crossed 2,200 by the age of nine before becoming the youngest international master at 10 and then the youngest grandmaster in the world at 12. Recently, at the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament, he also became