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GM Abhimanyu Mishra simul at Marshall Chess Club

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chessperson2222222
Apr 24, 2022
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This past Friday, GM Abhimanyu Mishra gave a 29 board simultaneous exhibition at the Marshall Chess Club. For everyone who is unaware, Abhimanyu Mishra, at only 12 years and 7 months of age, became the youngest grandmaster in chess history in 2021. This accomplishment should serve as an inspiration for anyone learning chess and will forever have an indelible impact on the chess community. Abhimanyu, or "Abhi" for short, won most of the games. I am not sure of the final results, but about 4 players or so were able to draw him and 1 player managed to win. Something interesting to note was that he opened every game with 1. e4. 

 

Many players shared their games with me, but I will start with my own game. Abhi managed to get a winning position by move 20 or so but I played on for awhile.

 

With my game out of the way, it seems most appropriate to show the sole victor in the simul. One might expect that it was one of the highest rated players, but believe or not, Abhi's loss was to Michael Bamford. Bamford is a brand new player whose provisional rating is only 1464! 

Now it's time to show the draws. Abhi's first draw was against Max Mottola, a young expert who is only 2 years older than him. 

 

The player sitting to my left, Alec Choi, also managed to obtain a draw. 

 

 
The last draw I managed to obtain was from Dr. Rouven Essig, who is a physics professor at Stony Brook University. Dr. Essig is new player, only becoming rated last year, but has an impressively high rating.
 
 
Many of the participants of this simul were young children. This includes Dr. Essig's 7 year old daughter, Aviana. Although she lost, she put up a good fight.
 
Another young child, August Hartsel, also put up an impressive fight despite losing at the end. Hertzel was even able to fight his way back to equality from a losing position early on, forcing Abhi to win the game twice.
 
Nathan Peyton, who is only 10 or 11 years old, employed the Petroff defense. Peyton was the only player in the simul to play this. Although he lost at the end, it was an interesting game.
 
 
One of the youngest, if not the youngerst participant was Lev Shangin, who boasts a rating of over 1600 despite being only 6 or 7 years old. Shangin played a good game despite being defeated at the end.
 
 
 
 
Faced with the Sicilian Defense, Abhi mostly employed the Moscow Variation, like he did against me. However, one opponent didn't respond with 2..d6 and thus Abhi played the against the French variation.
 
 
One of Abhi's most complicated wins was against Gabriel Leibowitz, who put up a very hard fight despite being rated about 1000 points lower. 
There were 2 opponents who chose to keep their names private. Both of them played very good games despite losing at the end.
 
 

Those are all the games I have collected, although I am obviously missing a whole bunch of Abhi's victories. I want to conclude by giving a huge thanks to Abhimanyu Mishra and his family and to the Marshall Chess Club for such a fun and exciting event!

ChessSBM
ChessSBM
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Apr 24, 2022
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Nice post!

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