Ten-years-old Christian refugee becomes USA’s chess master
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a once-homeless Christian refugee in New York City who fled persecution with his family from Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, is now America’s newest national chess master at the age of ten. And he and his family are thanking God for the achievement.
“Our God has done it again today. Tanitoluwa won Chess Club of Fairfield Connecticut championship,” the prodigy’s father, Kayode Adewumi, announced earlier this month in a post on Facebook showing his son, affectionately called Tani, gleefully holding two trophies. Earning that win on the 1st of May gave the ten-year-old his newest chess ranking.
A statement from the U.S. Chess Federation said Tani’s achievement at ten years, seven months, and twenty-eight days makes him the 28th youngest person to become a national chess master. Tani, who had to defeat another national chess master and an international master to achieve his latest ranking, said he is “very happy” about the achievement.
Tani was living with his family in a homeless shelter in Manhattan in 2019 when he was featured in an op-ed by The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff shortly after he won New York state’s primary chess championship after a little more than a year of playing chess.
Source: christianpost.com
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