Tani Adewumi's family ran away from Nigeria in 2017 when they were in a dangerous situation and finally settled in New York. The family was given the housing in a homeless shelter (收容所) above a hotel.
Tani and his brother studied in a nearby public school that had an active chess club and Tani wanted to join. When his mother told the coaches they were living in a shelter and couldn't pay $330, they gave it up. Tani made headlines when he won the New York State chess championship at the age of 8, after only a year of practicing.
His chess coach had set up a GoFundMe following the boy's win, which got his family into a flat and out of a homeless shelter. The GoFundMe page raised more than $250,000 within 10 days. A kind person offered to pay their rent on a flat for one year.
This month, as a fifth grader, Tani cruised through an in-person tournament (锦标赛) in Connecticut open to advanced players of all ages and won every game. He emerged with a chess rating of 2223, making him a national chess master. "I want to be the youngest grandmaster," he said. "I want to have it when I'm 11 or 12."
Sergey Karjakin is the youngest person ever to become a grandmaster. He achieved that honor at 12 years old. Many are comparing Tani to Beth Harmon from the popular Netflix series "The Queens Gambit". "I definitely did see myself in it," he said.
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