Tanitoluwa Adewumi is a 10 year old boy in New York.
He is the U.S. National Chess Master.
At the age of 8 he won the New York State Chess championship while living in a homeless shelter.
When word got out that he and his family were living in a shelter, a GoFundMe was started that raised $254,000 that his family used for the home they are currently living in.
Tanitoluwa Adewumi has become a National Chess Master at the age of 10.
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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.
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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 Nigerian refugee still has a roof over his head as well.
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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 the miniseries eventually. For now, he says it’s been exciting to see growing public interest around the game he’s been playing since middle school.