His next target will be his second and third GM norms, and with them Abhimanyu Mishra’s world record as the youngest ever GM, within the next four months or so. He already has the World Cup in Goa, the European Club Cup in Greece, and a closed tournament in Argentina lined up. A few chess.com readers alleged that Madrid was a disguised norm factory based on a single opponent blunder (51 Nxf7?? in this game) but in Oro’s previous event, the Fujarah Masters in the United Arab Emirates, he was already very close to a GM norm before fading at the finish. The likely England board order is the former Russian champion Nikita Vitiugov, the nine-time and reigning British champion, Michael Adams, Gawain Maroroa Jones, Luke McShane, and England’s youngest GM, Shreyas Royal, 16.
