8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship
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#3As they say, talent is evenly distributed and opportunity is not. Good on the little fella.
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#4NYT's Nicholas Kristof (the first to tell the story) announced a GoFundMe campaign to help Tani's family: https://www.gofundme.com/just-tani
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#5A 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...
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#6Imagine the potential this kid has if he was able to achieve this while his family was homeless... I am both impressed and jealous!
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#7In his age category.
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#8A 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…
> #27 in America for eight-year-olds
The granularity of this ranking is interesting.
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#9In his age category.
He's 27th in the country out of his age range and he's up against a lot of kids with every advantage in life.
That's damn impressive any way you cut it, just under 1587USCF meaning he's playing at about the grade of an average active adult chess player (and far beyond an average player)...at 8 after a year living in pretty grim life circumstances.
Little dude is inspiring.
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#10Edit: Yay for the kid. He's awesome. I was trying to be clever about demonstrating how the journalist's selection among alternatives narratives influence our perception of reality, but it was too much wrongthink.