How this 34-year-old chess champion became India’s youngest new billionaire CNBC 1/12/2021 Replay Video 'The Queen's Gambit' drives renewed interest in chess Replay Video , but Nikhil Kamath liked the game way before it was cool. So much so, that he dropped out of high school at 14 to play full time. Don't miss: "Chess teaches you how to work under a structure, in a system, but yet try and be creative within that system," Kamath told CNBC Make It. That was the starting move in a sequence of events that would eventually earn him billionaire status as part of India's answer to trading platform Robinhood.