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10-year-old becomes America’s newest chess master
Chess prodigy Tanitoluwa Adewumi won all four of his chess matches at the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship, making him a chess master. At age 10, Tani is the 28th youngest chess master in the U.S. Tani and his family come from Nigeria. They were refugees. They moved to the…
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