10-year-old New Yorker becomes America’s newest chess master, report says
Updated May 12, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
Honoree Tanitoluwa Tani Adewumi attends the 10th annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards at the Stella Artois Theater on Friday, May 3, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP) - Honoree Tanitoluwa Tani Adewumi attends the 10th annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards at the Stella Artois Theater on Friday, May 3, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Ten-year-old Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi is not afraid of a challenge.
The New Yorker recently won all four of his matches at the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut, raising his chess rating to 2223 and making him the 28th youngest person to become a chess master, according to the US Chess Federation.
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country s newest national chess master.
At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won all four of his matches, bumping his chess rating up to 2223 and making him the 28th youngest person to become a chess master, according to US Chess. I was very happy that I won and that I got the title, he says, I really love that I finally got it. Finally is after about three years the amount of time that Adewumi has been playing chess. When he started, Adewumi and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan after fleeing religious persecution by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in their home country of Nigeria.
Meet America’s Newest Chess Master, 10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi
By Karen Zamora
May 11, 2021
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country’s newest national chess master.
At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won all four of his matches, bumping his chess rating up to 2223 and making him the 28th youngest person to become a chess master, according to US Chess.
“I was very happy that I won and that I got the title,” he says, “I really love that I finally got it.”
“Finally” is after about three years the amount of time that Adewumi has been playing chess. When he started, Adewumi and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan after fleeing religious persecution by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in their home country of Nigeria.
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Tanitoluwa Adewumi, pictured in 2019, just became the newest national chess master in the U.S. at age 10.
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country s newest national chess master.
At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won all four of his matches, bumping his chess rating up to 2223 and making him the 28th youngest person to become a chess master, according to US Chess. I was very happy that I won and that I got the title, he says, I really love that I finally got it. Finally is after about three years the amount of time that Adewumi has been playing chess. When he started, Adewumi and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan after fleeing religious persecution by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in their home country of Nigeria.