Norway’s new six-year-old chess prodigy
Published: 11 May 2015 21:46 GMT+02:00
A six-year-old Norwegian girl has defeated a chess grandmaster, who claims she is better than top ranked Magnus Carlsen was at her age.
Lykke-Merlot Helliesen, named after the grape by her wine-loving father, won a simultaneous exhibition match against Simen Agdestein in which he played nine girls.
“She played splendidly! She is much better than that Carlsen was when he was six years old,” Agdestein said after the game, according to the chess website sjakkbloggen.no.
Agdestein was Norwegian chess champion seven times and is Magnus Carlsen’s former coach. His brother, Espen Agdestein, is Carlsen’s manager.
Lykke-Merlot has been playing chess for six months at a local chess club in her home town of Sandefjord.
Full article here.
Magnus’ photo is above her …
Is this a coincidence?
The event was at Magnus’ old school – quite a few photos of him there