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Tanitoluwa Adewumi has become a National Chess Master at the age of 10. Photo Credit: Nicholas Kristof/Twitter Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the young New Yorker of Nigerian descent who came into national and international prominence about two years ago after he was discovered as a homeless chess genius, is now reportedly a United States National Chess Master. - Advertisement - The prodigy is still only 10-years-old and a fifth-grader. Adewumi’s new status was reported by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, one of Adewumi’s earliest media hype men. He also reiterated that the former Nigeria...

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SAINT LOUIS, Missouri (WABC) -- A man from the Bronx who became a ground-breaking chess champion at a young age believes in the possibilities that come from playing the game -- and he's taking his campaign on the road to prisons. More than 100 inmates at the Saint Louis County Justice Center are playing in the jail's first chess tournament. "These guys, they're good. That's what they do," correction officer Mario Reed said. "There's some good players in there." Justus Williams watched it all. He became the youngest African-American Chess Master in history at the age of 12. Now he is overseein...

Credits: Photo: Howard Zhong Next image Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix’s miniseries “The Queen's Gambit.” Though the show ranked as Netflix’s No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT’s chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven’t seen it yet. Tyrone Davis III, a junior computer science major, a U.S. National Chess Master, and the president of MIT’s chess club, says he plans to watch t...

Senate in recent weeks, about russia's involvement in pushing the ukraine meddling conspiracy. as someone who's worked with the white house, does it surprise you that such a conspiracy seemed to make its way all the way to the oval office? >> this is the central question that i hope we focus on in the next few weeks. there used to be a bipartisan consensus in this country about putin and russia. we needed to find our interests with russia and work on those, but never, ever doubt the global chess master, vladimir putin. ex-kgb, smarter than all of us. it is no surprise that he would have figure...