I heard on the radio a few days ago a brief interview on NPR with Awonder Liang and his father Yingming “Will” Liang. Awonder recently won the under-8 division at the Youth World Chess Championship, which was held in Brazil this year. After some further research, Liang wasn’t the only American who “medaled” or placed:
In the under-10 section, Ruifeng Li of Texas took the silver, also on tie-breakers. And in the girls’ under-14 group, Sarah Chiang, another Texan, narrowly missed out on the bronze medal when she tied for third. But under the tie-breaker scoring system, she finished fourth.
I guess Asian Americans are good at chess as they are in math? LOL. To be honest, I played chess in high school and in fact was team captain. I forgot how I got into chess, but do remember having a chess board as a kid. But my parents never pushed my brother and I to play. But my middle school friend’s brother was a true chess master type and recruited me to play in high school, and that is how I got involved in chess club and the team.
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