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A year after learning to play chess he has a USCF rating of 1473 and is #27 in America for eight-year-olds.

Tani participated in the New York State Championship. He won the category for children of his age, kindergarten to third grade, with five wins and one draw[0].

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/opinion/sunday/chess-cham...

parent Dangeranger 7 years ago

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