The Grandmaster Grift

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You might think chess is a sport for the older generation, but in the 80s everything changed. Young players started to rise to the top and within just a few years they were given the highest title in the sport - Grandmaster. It was unheard of. Then, when one pre-teen broke the world record for youngest Grandmaster in history, suspicions started to arise about how these kids were getting so successful. And all the evidence pointed to one thing - their parents were bending the rules. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's June 30th, 2021, and Hamant Mishra is watching his 12-year-old son, Abbi, play
0:13.3	a chess tournament in Hungary.
0:16.0	It's the middle of the pandemic, and there are fewer tournaments than usual, so they've
0:20.2	flown from their home in New Jersey to Europe to play.
0:23.0	In fact, for eight, nine months, he could not play a single tournament.
0:26.7	Do you see Hamant and his son, Abbi?
0:29.2	They're on a time-sensitive mission.
0:31.4	Abbi is attempting to beat a 19-year-old world record to become the youngest chess grandmaster
0:36.9	in history.
0:37.9	Just because he was chasing the record, he non-stop played for 75 days, almost one game
0:44.5	at it.
0:47.1	They only have a few months to get this title.
0:49.6	Every game counts, and they can't afford to make any mistakes.
0:53.6	He was playing that about tournament, so he was not getting enough break.
0:58.7	It was silent in the hall, except for the quiet rhythmical taps of chess pieces being
1:03.5	moved around the board.
1:05.7	Abbi was exhausted.
1:08.0	He was staring at all of the pieces on the board.
1:11.3	Everything he had worked for for the past seven years was resting on his ability to fight
1:16.0	this fatigue and concentrate on outsmarting each opponent put before him.
1:21.9	And then he won.
1:33.2	Abbi had beaten the record by two months.
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