8-year-old living in Singapore becomes youngest chess player

SINGAPORE - After a three-hour game at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open on Sunday (Feb 18), Ashwath Kaushik could not help but grin widely as he delivered the good news to his mother Rohini Ramachandran: he had just beaten Polish grandmaster Jacek Stopa. At eight years, six months and 11 days, he became the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster in...

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