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Nodirbek Abdusattarov, The Second-Youngest GM in History
Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2:53PM
Sergey Karjakin's record as the youngest-ever GM, which he achieved aged 12 years, 7 months, remains intact for now - though the record is looking pretty soft these days. But he now has company, as a second 12-year-old has also achieved the requirements for the grandmaster title. That players is Nodirbek Abdusattarov of Uzbekistan, and you can read more about his accomplishment here. Congratulations to the youngster, who has bumped Parimarjan Negi into the #3 spot all-time and Magnus Carlsen into #4.
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There has been some confusion about Abdusattorov's birth date: Wikipedia in English says 1st December 2004, Wikipedia in French and Catalan 18th September 2004. His previous title norms don't help - date of birth given as "2004/00/00".
This has now been resolved: Chessbase (article updated?) got a scan of his passport, 18th September 2004 is correct. So he is already 13 years, 1 month and 11 days old - or was on the day he obtained his final GM norm (we could subtract one day, as he could have afforded to lose rather than draw his last game, and also crossed 2500 earlier during the event). It doesn't affect his status as second-youngest GM in chess history.
BTW Praggnanandhaa, who can still beat Karjakin's record (but doesn't have any GM norms yet), also played at the Chigorin Memorial but this time had a disappointing event.