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8 year old boy becomes youngest player to Beat a Chess Grandmaster: ‘I felt amazing’
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<blockquote data-quote="Michie" data-source="post: 77620233" data-attributes="member: 628"><p>At the tender age of eight years, six months, and 11 days, Singaporean Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical tournament chess.</p><p></p><p>He beat out the previous record holder by 4 months after defeating Poland’s Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.</p><p></p><p>CNN <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/23/sport/ashwath-kaushik-chess-prodigy-world-champion-spt-intl/index.html" target="_blank">describes</a> his parents seeing the “inevitability” of their son spending more time than they did growing up looking at screens, and explained they tried to get out ahead of the habit by introducing the boy to the ancient board game through ChessKid.com.</p><p></p><p>Then as the pandemic arrived and Singaporean authorities instituted strict lockdowns, Kaushik had all the time in the world to practice.</p><p></p><p>“I feel proud of my game and how I played. I felt amazing, just unbelievable,” Ashwath told CNN Sport in the wake of his victory.</p><p></p><p>Continued below.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/8-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-player-to-beat-a-chess-grandmaster-i-felt-amazing/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michie, post: 77620233, member: 628"] At the tender age of eight years, six months, and 11 days, Singaporean Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical tournament chess. He beat out the previous record holder by 4 months after defeating Poland’s Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland. CNN [URL='https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/23/sport/ashwath-kaushik-chess-prodigy-world-champion-spt-intl/index.html']describes[/URL] his parents seeing the “inevitability” of their son spending more time than they did growing up looking at screens, and explained they tried to get out ahead of the habit by introducing the boy to the ancient board game through ChessKid.com. Then as the pandemic arrived and Singaporean authorities instituted strict lockdowns, Kaushik had all the time in the world to practice. “I feel proud of my game and how I played. I felt amazing, just unbelievable,” Ashwath told CNN Sport in the wake of his victory. Continued below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/8-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-player-to-beat-a-chess-grandmaster-i-felt-amazing/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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