Roman Shogdzhiev turns into youngest chess participant to safe Worldwide Grasp norm

Roman Shogdzhiev, 9, has grow to be the youngest participant within the historical past of chess to safe an Worldwide Grasp (IM) norm, and likewise turned solely one in every of three gamers to surpass the ELO ranking of 2300 earlier than turning 10 years outdated. Shogdzhiev secured the norm at 9 years, 10 months and seven days, which is sort of a month youthful than Argentine chess prodigy
Faustino Oro. The Russian chess participant achieved the feat in the course of the RadnickiChess IM event that was held in Serbia’s Belgrade in December.

Roman completed that event in second place with a rating of seven out of 9 factors, behind Servia’s Suat Atalik with 7.5 factors. Roman sealed the norm with a draw towards Serbian Grandmaster Branko Damljanović. There have been two Grandmasters and two Worldwide Masters competing within the event. American chess Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra had secured his first IM norm when he was 10 years and 9 months.

‘Proud of my outcomes this 12 months’: Roman 

“I’m pleased with my outcomes this 12 months. I did fairly nicely in some ways and performed nicely. Subsequent 12 months I set myself the aim of getting the title of worldwide grasp,” Roman advised Chess.com. Roman has a classical ranking of 2349 in January and has thus grow to be the world’s highest-rated participant beneath the age of 11. Roman’s dad and mom know that there will probably be excessive expectations going ahead.

“Roman will probably be checked out as a rising star of chess, and now he should stay as much as excessive expectations.

“On the identical time, success offers confidence in his talents. Roman actually feels that he’s able to so much, and this can give him extra motivation,” his dad and mom advised Chess.com.

When he was simply eight years outdated, Roman defeated 5 Grandmasters on the FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships in 2023. In November final 12 months, he turned the world champion within the U10 open class and a 12 months prior, he received the World Youth Underneath 8 Championship. In 2022, he received the European Youth Underneath 8 Championship.