ZURICH: An eight-year-old became the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess when Ashwath Kaushik beat Poland’s Jacek Stopa at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.
Indian-born Ashwath, who lives in Singapore, defeated 37-year-old Stopa to break the record set a month earlier by Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia when he beat grandmaster Milko Popchev, according to the Chess.com website.
Ivanovic is also aged eight but was born five months before Ashwath. “It felt really exciting and amazing, and I felt proud of my game and how I played, especially since I was worse at one point but managed to come back from that,” Ashwath told Chess.com.
Ashwath learned to play the game at the age of four and became a World Under-Eight Rapid Champion in 2022, the website said. Ashwath finished the tournament in 12th place after losing to International Master Harry Grieve.
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