Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore just became the youngest person to ever defeat a grandmaster in Chess.
At 8 years, 6 months, and 11 days Ashwath is 4-months younger than the previous record-holder.
Check out this interview with the kid. He’s such a cute little genius.
He accomplished his goal. What a boss. CNN describes his parents seeing the “inevitability” of their son spending more time than they did growing up looking at screens, and explained they tried to get out ahead of the habit by introducing the boy to the ancient board game through ChessKid.com.Then as the pandemic arrived and Singaporean authorities instituted strict lockdowns, Kaushik had all the time in the world to practice. So, I guess he started playing at around 4 years old. Which is impressive since when I was 4 I’m pretty sure my parents weren’t teaching me chess so much as they were telling me to stop […]
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