Youngest IM ever in Chess History at 10 years and 10 months!!

Indian boy R Praggnanandhaa might just have become the youngest IM ever in chess.

He is 10 years and 10 months old and just made his third IM norm in India after the first two coming at Cannes and Moscow earlier this year.(3 IM norms in a span of 3 months)

Here's the link to an article 

http://en.chessbase.com/post/praggnanandhaa-youngest-chess-im-in-history

Congratulations

I know we can't extrapolate this achievement far into the future, but it is a big deal nonetheless. 

Your disinterest (or rather my interest ) into this can be ascribed to the fact that you're not Indian (or an Indian chess fan for that matter).

But you know the achievement is noteworthy when a five time World Chess Champion tweets about it.

https://twitter.com/vishy64theking/status/736974296065576962

Debistro how arrogant you are with such rediculous comment. Shame on you.

Wow, boy...You must be bored

Praggnanandhaa

Coincidence?

Whoa man, you just blew my mind! Lol

I saw him many times.Actually am in Indian team in which Praggnandhhaa

His achievement seems to be a combination of natural talent and presumably good environment - viz good parenting with a minimum level of wealth. India is a large country with probably much underused talent related to mathematical type things.

Those who keep posting on here: "My rating is 1100 and I want to be a GM etc etc" are insufferable but often things aren't in our own hands. The best environment is probably of sufficient wealth that forces people to achieve, but not of "aristocratic" wealth that compels them to be unambitious morons like George Bush or the British royal family for example.

Genes and enviroment. BOTH important !

Just call him Preggo Anand.

When I was 10 only thing I knew was how the pieces moved.. except castling and enpassant.

Feeling proud...

like peppinu.

Pepperoni?

Ponnupazoozu?

Call me "Prag."