After hosting more than 50 chess events this year at suburban schools, community centers, and temples, Aditya Gupta is working on taking his game to the next level. The senior at Fremd High School in Palatine recently received a Chessable Research Award for applying machine learning techniques to chess.
At 17, Aditya Gupta of Rolling Meadows has earned a distinction few teens have achieved. The junior at William Fremd High School in Palatine is among only five high school students in the nation to receive the 2023 Scholar-Chessplayer Award from the U.S. Chess Federation awarded only twice to an Illinois student.
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, 10 year old chess champion.
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The kindness of a teacher has led to a formerly homeless 10-year-old boy celebrating a chess championship and a new home.
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, more commonly known by his nickname “Tani”, has become one of the youngest official Chess National Masters with a score of 2223.
In 2017, Tani and his family fled their home country of Nigeria after being persecuted as Christians. They ended up in Manhattan where they started off in a homeless shelter. That is where Tani was introduced to chess for the first time.
Tani s father Kayode Adewumi gives all the glory of this amazing feat and where they are as a family, to God.