CHENNAI: Wei Yi is the most talked about teen phenomenon in the chess world now. The 16-year-old’s progress in the last two years has been meteoric. Like reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen, Wei keeps breaking records. He became the youngest Chinese chess champion last week at the age of 15, upstaging higher-ranked Ding Liren and […]
China’s future World Champion?

Fast-rising Wei YiJune 12, 2014 07:19:41 PMBy Bobby Ang CHESS was banned during the first eight years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but by 1974 there was an easing of the ban that saw China begin to participate in international competitions. Many of China’s top players had already moved to Hong Kong due to the […]
The American academic genius and chess phenom

What Makes You So Smart, Teenage International Chess Master?BY NOAH DAVIS • March 19, 2014 • 10:00 AM Luke Vellotti is going to rule the world. This is the partial text of an email I received while trying to schedule an interview with University of California-Los Angeles freshman Luke Vellotti: “I am taking 23 credits, […]
The next Anand from India?

KOZHIKODE, November 28, 2013Updated: November 28, 2013 01:23 IST Aravindh Chithambaram: An exciting prospectP. K. AJITH KUMAR “Who is this boy that won that Open GM tournament?” enquired Ulrich Stock, a veteran German journalist, shortly before the closing ceremony of the World chess championship in Chennai a couple of days ago. “I would like to […]
Spectacular performance by local Chennai boy

GM Norms for Aravindh, Mozharov, three share lead 14-year-old FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram (7.5) earned his maiden nine game GM Norm defeating fellow Indian Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu in the ninth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru […]
Bid to back 11–year old girl chess wiz

Bid to back 11–year old girl chess wiz Jimmy Laking Chess aficionados in Baguio City and Benguet last week began a search for sponsors who could help bankroll the schooling of 11-year old Bea Mendoza, the reigning National Age Group Champion in the girls under 12 category. Mendoza is currently a student of the University of […]
An American Phenom

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Brainiest children or pushiest Mothers?

Are these Britain’s brainiest children – or have they just got the pushiest mothers?Meet three children who took part in a search for UK’s ultimate child genius By Tanith Carey PUBLISHED: 01:02 GMT, 11 June 2013 | UPDATED: 01:02 GMT, 11 June 2013 At the tender age of nine, Josh Altman has grown used to […]
14 year old prodigy shares his religious beliefs

Utah chess prodigy wins world title, shares his Mormon beliefs By Wendy Leonard, Deseret News Published: Friday, Nov. 23 2012 5:23 p.m. MST WEST JORDAN — At age 5, Kayden Troff memorized multiplication tables in about an hour. He recognized a pattern and it helped him succeed. Now, at 14, he’s still recognizing patterns, as well […]
5 year old prodigy, amazing!
Tsung Tsung, 5-Year-Old Hong Kong Piano Prodigy Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar