Tanitoluwa Adewumi overcomes homelessness to become chess master
His family has gotten young Adewumi a coach to help him reach his goal of becoming youngest chess grandmaster ever.
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Tanitoluwa Adewumi, at 10 years old, has become America’s newest national chess master, the 28th youngest person to achieve the status, according to the U.S. Chess Federation.
However, one of the most inspirational aspects of Adewumi’s story is that he once lived in a homeless shelter. His family left northern Nigeria in 2017 and, upon moving to New York, lived in the Manhattan-based shelter, and the boy learned to play chess at school.