Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a once-homeless Christian refugee in New York City who fled persecution with his family from Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, is now America’s newest national chess master at the age of 10. And he and his family are thanking God for the achievement.
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.
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The Chilmark library is hosting a beginner s chess class this spring. Steve Buissinne
The Chilmark library hosts a beginner’s chess class for all ages online Tuesday, May 11, at 6 pm.
Chess instructor Glenn Davison, a member of the Massachusetts Chess Association and the U.S. Chess Federation, will lead this session. The class includes learning how to set up chess boards, using pawns, chess pieces and how they move to win, 10 tips for playing a better game, and how to win a game of chess in four moves. Davison presents the class with the “enthusiasm of a lifelong chess player who plays often,” according to a press release from the library.
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Now there is a new candidate for place one – and you can help him achieve his goal. The boy who is racing to break Karjakin s youngest GM record is Abhimanyu Mishra.
Abhimanyu learnt the rules of chess when he was two and a half years old. He became the youngest national expert at the age of 7 years and 6 months, the youngest National Master in the US at the age of nine years and two months. In late 2019, he beat R. Praggnanandhaa s record of becoming the youngest IM in the world at the age of 10 years, 9 months and 3 days. The youngster who lives in New Jersey, USA. He is an amazing talent and is now going after the record of becoming the world s youngest GM – ever.