At just three years old, a young Indian boy has become the youngest chess player to receive an official rating from the Chess Federation.
Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, born in 2022, beat many opponents – much older than him – to score 1,572 in Rapid Chess.
To become the youngest rated player, Sarwagya beat AbhijiTe, AbhijiThe 22-year-old, Shubham Chourasiya, is rated 1,696) and Abhijiet Awasthi (other opponents where they compete, according to The Indian Express.
The average base any chess player can have is 1,400; any lower is also considered unrestricted. To become a big king, players usually exceed the average of 2,500.
The scale measures a player’s abilities based on wins and losses against opponents. Major rating shifts occur when a player beats ranked opponents or losses to opponents are counted down. Your immediate rating is your skill level in long games.
To be ranked by the International Chess Federation, a player must score against five ranked players in official events.
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Sarwagya, who hails from the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, is one of a growing number of young Indian players rising up the ranks of the sport, marking a new era of confidence in the reign of the newly champion-producing State.
Those Champions include Madhvendra Pratap Sharma, who won two gold medals at the Asia Chess Championship and the Commonwealth Chess Championship in less than three weeks.
“These are the big marks of MP Chess,” Akshat Khamparia, convener of Madhya Pradesh Chess Ad-hoc hoc, who is also an international king, said.
Sarwagya was about two-and-a-half years old when she started playing chess, her father, Siddharth Singh, told Express.
“We moved him on last year because we noticed that his mind is a sponge and will pick up things very quickly. During the week of teaching chess, he can report all the pieces accurately,” he said.
“He loves the game very much. If you wake him up in the middle of the night and ask him to play, he will separate himself from other children his age because of his patience and not going out,” continued the boy’s father.
His coach, Nitin Chaurasiya, said that Saragwa shines from the beginning, but his younger brother made it difficult to train him at the beginning, and lessons often lead to tears, until he started rewarding the boy.
“You ask him anything and there’s no hesitation in answering. And he can hold his own on the board against the older kids. You can see his guts when he plays.
Sarwagya plays chess four to five hours a day, including one hour at the training center.
The former Champion Magnus Carlssen started playing chess at the age of five.
Guckesh D, who became the youngest World Chess Champion in history last year at 18, is also among the youngest players ever to become a grandmother. He was seven years old when he first took up the game.
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