Posted on 12/05/2025 2:14:43 AM PST by Cronos
India’s Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official Fide rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days.
The chess prodigy edged out the previous record of compatriot Anish Sarkar, who was three years, eight months and 19 days when he reached the milestone in November last year.
Kushwaha, who is enrolled in nursery school in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, holds a rapid rating of 1,572. To achieve a rating from Fide, the International Chess Federation, a player needs to beat at least one Fide-rated player.
A rating is a score that measures a chess player’s strengths based on their performances and is not the same as a ranking. World No 1 Magnus Carlsen is the top in rapid chess with a rating of 2,824.
“It’s a matter of great pride and honour for us that our son has become the youngest chess player in the world to achieve a FIDE ranking,” Kushwaha’s father Siddharth Singh told Indian news channel ETV Bharat. “We want him to become a grandmaster.”
Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status
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Because of this, we need to let in another 5 million H-1B workers from India to take the rest of our tech jobs. </sarcasm>
What do you buy a kid like that for Christmas?
A college textbook in quantum mechanics.
Dark glasses? Is he playing with a marked chess set?
I hope the kids he beat were at least 5.
One he can debunk and follow up with one of his own.
He’s awesome.
“What do you buy a kid like that for Christmas?”
NVidia.
He looks older than 3.
Even at 6, though, it’s phenomenal!
Area 51!
If I were 9 and over the hill, I would start requesting height boards to play like at the amusement parks. Talk about ankle biters.
I think he looks older as well. But he is good at chess. Smart kid.
How, exactly, would that work?
I guarantee this kid is not being allowed to be a kid. This happens all the time in India. They spend thousands and thousands for coaching a kid to play a game that unless you’re World Champion or a successful streamer, you’re barely making middle-class money.
I question your motivation for finding out!
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