Nine year old, Aditya Mittal with an ELO of 1750 is one of the country's best pro league players in the junior category, next only to Arya Bhakta who precedes him only with 3 points.
Aditya currently holds the title of Candidate Master. Some of his most prolific achievements being, Bronze Medal in Asian Schools Chess Championship 2012, New Delhi – U-7 category; Gold medal in National U-7 Chess Championship 2013, Pune; Asian Youth Bronze medalist U-8 category 2014, Uzbekistan and Asian Youth Rapid Gold Medalist in U-8 category 2014, Uzbekistan.
He was an early bird started playing at the age of 4.5 years inspired by his brother Vinayak Mittal to pursue chess. He picked up in no time and showed marvelous potential and in a very short time he became a wizard on advanced techniques initially showing his talent and might only to his family and acquaintances. No surprise that he is keen on strategizing and planning ahead with a great hand eye coordination given that his next favorite thing is solving jigsaw puzzles.
He is not only a great sportsperson but an excellent student too with great inclination towards mathematics and science. He also won a cash prize of Rs.50,000 for winning a Gold Medal in a nuclear science Olympiad which concluded recently. What we believe is that if it hadn't been chess, it would have been something else: Aditya's brain if it wasn't engaged in chess, it would have been for things like chess.
As contradictory as it seems he also loves to sing and like at everything else he is good at that too. He is very committed and practices for about 2-4 hours on weekdays and more on weekends which are evident of his determination. He is the most inborn and natural player one can encounter. He is immensely patient and is at the very less a reincarnation of some legendary chess player from the past.
Aditya plays precise chess, very clean and very clear, his games seem so simple, yet underneath there is great complexity and brilliance at work.
He is one step away from a world record of crossing the barrier of 2000 ELO points that will put his name down history in golden letters. And nonetheless at the age of nine.
Aditya's father, Nitish believes that his son is amongst many kids from the city who are showing promise and potential however that he and others need to do more to ensure that the best of the best come from our city and state.
And another thing to learn from Aditya would be that without any sort of publicity strategies to hog the limelight and with no media around disseminating his wins and conquests, this kid has done his deliverance.
Aditya is someone whose present achievements prove that he has it in himself to take that extra mile and become a Grandmaster and a legend of our age, he may turn into a terrific chess player, probably of Magnus Carlsen's stature.
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