While most young children are busy watching cartoons or just playing with toys, Anish Sarkar is racking his brains on the chessboard, setting a new record on Friday. Anish, who lives in North Kolkata, became the youngest player in the world to get a FIDE rating at the age of just three years, eight months and 19 days.

Born in Kolkata

Anish was born on 26 January 2021. He made his competitive chess debut in October from the West Bengal State Under-Nine Open Competition. The young player performed impressively in his first competition itself, scoring 5.5 points out of a possible eight.

Anish defeated these two

Meanwhile, he defeated two rated players - Arav Chatterjee and Ahilan Baishya. He finished 24th overall. Meanwhile, he also got a chance to play against India's number one player and world ranked fourth Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi.

Broke Tejas Tiwari's record

Aneesh then got a chance to play in the West Bengal State Under-13 Open in which he qualified to face five rated players. This gave him a preliminary rating of 1555 in the FIDE ratings. He thus broke the record of India's Tejas Tiwari who had achieved this feat at the age of less than five years.