10-year-old Dublin girl among nation’s top chess players
By KEVIN CORVO
Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:21 PM EDT
Ten-year-old Maggie Feng is shy by nature, but place a chessboard in front of the precocious girl, and she will open up as swiftly as finding a checkmate.
Feng, a fourth-grade student at Deer Run Elementary School, holds several past and current national titles in her age group for her chess acumen.
She is the second-highest ranked player in Ohio for girls in kindergarten through the 12th grade, having only recently yielded the top ranking, and is the No. 3 ranked 10-year-old girl in the United States.
…”She began playing chess when she was in the second grade,” said her father, Lei Feng.
Maggie began playing chess after discovering her older brother’s chessboard.”We had this chessboard her brother used and she asked me to play with her,” Mr. Feng said.
“Then, she asked to go to a chess camp and fell in love with the game,” he said.
Two years later, Maggie is traveling throughout the United States for tournaments and schools of instruction.
Feng competed March 19 at the Ohio Elementary Championship in Cuyahoga Falls and April 2 will compete in the championship division of the Ohio All Girls Tournament at the Columbus Schools for Girls.
Last year, she attended the World Chess Tournament, sponsored by Susan Polgar…
Source: http://www.snponline.com
Nice job Maggie.
She doesn’t look Irish.
I couple of days back…
I was at playchess.com and lose against a 9 years old boy…
I not a great player but against a 9 years old make me feel a little bad and old