Abhimanyu Mishra's chess, by the numbers
October 16, 2026 · 287 games: the last 200 blitz on chess.com, January to October 2026, and 87 classical, 2024 to 2026
Mishra's last 200 blitz games on chess.com and their classical games of the last two years, every move checked by Stockfish, counted the way anyone's games are. Here is what the count found.
Mishra became a grandmaster at 12 years, 4 months and 25 days, the youngest in history, in June 2021. In September 2025, at 16, they beat the reigning world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, in round 5 of the FIDE Grand Swiss. "I never felt like I was really inferior against these players," they said that week (chess.com's report, by Colin McGourty, September 9, 2025). At the 2026 U.S. Championship, now 17, they drew with Wesley So in round 6 by finding a run of only-moves a piece down (chess.com's round-6 report, October 15, 2026).
This page counts how they play: their last 200 blitz games on chess.com and their classical games from the Grand Swiss, the World Cup, the London Classic and the Saint Louis Masters, every move checked by the engine, with the same questions a club player's games get asked.
How they play
Every player gets one of four profiles from two measures: how often they force matters with a check or a capture, against what the position asks for, and how rarely one of their pieces is left loose. Mishra's pieces are rarely loose (85 of 100 in blitz; the line is at 64), and on forcing they sit just over the line at 54, the only one of the five players counted this week on the forcing side: the Striker, as Carlsen is in rapid (55). In classical they sit on the line itself, 51, with the pieces safer still (97). The other blitz scores: closing 78, accuracy 80, recovery 41; in classical, accuracy 92 and closing 93.
Seven games in ten against their own rating band.
141 of 200 blitz games were against opponents within 100 points; the median opponent was rated 3132
Mishra's blitz is played against the strongest field of the five players counted this week: a median opponent of 3132 (Carlsen's 3108, Caruana's 3062), with 141 of 200 games against opponents within 100 points of them, 54 against players 100 or more points weaker, and 5 against players 100 or more points stronger. They scores 51% in the first group and 80% in the second. Carlsen's last 200 blitz games have 21 against their own band; Liang's 101, Caruana's 64, So's 46.
The longest games of the five.
87 of 200 blitz games went past move 60; the median game lasted 56 moves
Nearly half of Mishra's blitz games, 87 of 200, went past move 60, and the median game lasted 56 moves; Carlsen's median is 38 and 31 of their 198 reach move 60. All 200 of Mishra's games are at 3+0, three minutes for the whole game with no increment, which makes a 60-move game a game of 120 moves played at a second each. They scored 62% in the long ones.
A second a move.
1.0 s median time per move in blitz, against the opponents' 1.1
Mishra moves faster than the other four: a median of 1.0 second a move in their 3+0 games, against Carlsen's 1.6, Liang's 1.4, Caruana's 1.5 and So's 2.2. The clock cuts both ways in games this long: 33 of their 104 wins came on time, and 15 of their 69 losses. Their first serious mistake, by the engine, typically lands on move 42.
Three first moves, nearly evenly.
46% of 101 blitz games as White opened with e4; d4 23%, Nf3 22%
As White in blitz, Mishra opened with e4 46 times (46%), d4 23 (23%) and Nf3 22 (22%), then c4 seven times and b3 three: three first moves for 91 of 101 games, the Carlsen shape (d4 40%, e4 30%, c4 22%) where Liang plays 1.e4 nine times in ten. As Black they meet 1.d4 with 1…Nf6 in 31 of 33 games, and 1.e4 with 1…e5 (17), 1…e6 (12) and 1…c5 (11).
Clearly winning 132 times; 103 won.
78% of decisive advantages converted in blitz
Mishra reached a decisive advantage in 132 blitz games and won 103 of them (78%); 12 were drawn and 17 lost. Against a field this strong and in games this long, the comparison line is Lichess blitz players rated 2000 and up, who convert 79%; Carlsen converts 93%, So 88%. When a trade left an opponent's piece with no defender, they took it 22 of 23 times. In 87 classical games from 2024 to 2026 the count is 28 of 30 decisive advantages won and the other two drawn, with 5 of 6 losses showing no blunder.
Six losses in 87 classical games.
6 of 87 classical games lost, 2024 to 2026; 51 drawn, 30 won
In 87 classical games from the Grand Swiss, the World Cup, the London Classic, the Saint Louis Masters and six open tournaments, Mishra lost 6, drew 51 and won 30 (64%); 5 of the 6 losses had no blunder in them, and 4 moves in 87 games cost 30 points or more. Average loss a move against the engine's choice: 0.11 of a pawn, with the first serious mistake typically on move 36. As White 1.e4 25 times and 1.d4 18; as Black the Sicilian against 1.e4 in 15 of 23, the Najdorf most of all (10 games of 43, scoring 65%). The games as Black are drawn 70% of the time, as White 49%: 0.71 points a game as White, 0.56 as Black.
The full reports
- Mishra's blitz report
200 blitz games (all 3+0) on chess.com as PursuitOfHappyness2, January to October 2026: 104 wins, 27 draws, 69 losses. Download the games (PGN) - Mishra's classical report
87 classical games, 2024 to 2026: the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 (11), the World Cup 2025 (2), the London Chess Classic 2025 (9), the Saint Louis Masters 2026 (9), the Washington International 2024 (8) and 2025 (7), the World Junior 2024 (6), the Sharjah Masters 2025 (9), Fujairah 2025 (8), Menorca 2026 (8) and Skalica 2026 (9), from Lichess's broadcasts. 30 wins, 51 draws, 6 losses. Download the games (PGN)
Each report opens as a deck of slides, one finding to a slide, with the positions behind every number. A blunder is a move that cost 30 or more points of winning chances; winning chances are the engine's estimate of how likely a player is to win, from 0 to 100.
How this was measured
Plysight analyzes games the same way for everyone: Stockfish evaluates every move, and the findings are counted from those evaluations. The reports compare a player with others at their rating where a fair comparison exists; at Mishra's rating there is none, so those lines are left out. Advice lines, written for a player reading their own report, are left out too. The six house words the reports use are defined on each report's last slide.
Blitz games from chess.com's public archive of pursuitofhappyness2; classical games from Lichess's broadcasts. Plysight is independent of chess.com, Lichess and Mishra. Mishra's FIDE profile. Published October 16, 2026; updated October 16, 2026.
Piece art by Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0.