Youngest at 7 years 3 months

Hari, youngest rated chess player at 7 years & 3 months
6 Jan 2009, 0128 hrs IST, Hari Hara Nandanan,TNN

CHENNAI: There are some records in chess which are beyond the scope of verification. The most glaring of them is the record for the youngest rated player in the world.

This is simply because the World federation (FIDE) has not acknowledged it as something significant. But in India, this record seems to have got the official seal as the Tamil Nadu Chess Association on Monday claimed that R. Harikrishnan of Chennai – a seven-years, three-month old second standard student – has become the youngest rated player in the country.

Harikrishnan, a student of Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation School, Ambattur (Chennai) has an Elo rating of 1519 in the January 2009 list, according to a Tamil Nadu Chess Association release.

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