7-year-old N.B. chess prodigy relates to popularity of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
The popular Netflix series
But New Brunswick has a prodigy of its own, seven-year-old Andreas Doemer who lives in Saint John. It a fun brain sport, said the Grade 2 student.
Andreas even recently tied an international master from Jamaica, said his mother Raegan Deomer.
She said her son is obsessed with the game. My husband has to put on a stopwatch when [Andreas] goes to bed to read his books . the timer goes off and it is time to stop the chess reading, she said.
The young lad, who was just four-and-a-half when his father taught him to play, admits the game is his passion. I play all the time almost every day online I play one or two games at least, he said.