CHESS: Nodirbek Abdusattorov - 2nd Youngest Chess Grandmaster in History

Here is a game played early in 2017 before this latest prodigy, Nodirbek Abdusattorov from Uzbekistan, became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 1 month and 11 days.

In this game, Nodirbek is Black and plays the Nimzo-Indian defence against an Indian grandmaster, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, whom he defeats in a mere 19 moves. The game runs thus:

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 O-O 8. e3 Be6 9. a3 Be7 10. Bd3 c5 11. dxc5 d4

12. exd4 Nc6 13. Nge2 Nxd4 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Ne4 Nxe4

16. Bxe7 Bb3 17. Qe2 Nxf2 18. Qxf2 Qxd3 19. Qh4 Bc4

The master stroke comes when Black plays 16. ... Bb3 after which White is finished. Below is the position of the board before Black plays this move. After Black captured the Knight on e4 on his previous move, White captures the Bishop on e7, clearly not expecting what then happened.

As of October 2017, Nodirbek Abdusattorov has an ELO rating of 2498. Lailith Babu on the other hand has a current ranking of 2525 and achieved his highest ranking of 2594 in April of 2014. Here is a list of the top twenty players of all time, taken from Chess-DB. Note how Bobby Fisher still ranks in 18th position with an ELO rating of 2785, achieved in April of 1972 (when I turned 23).