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    A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...
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    to prodigies' exceptional performance in chess. The deliberate practice is energy-consuming and requires attention to correct mistakes. As prodigies start...
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  • The Queen's Gambit (novel) (category Novels about chess)
    fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and...
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  • in the aftermath of their father's death: Ivan, a 22-year-old former chess prodigy who begins a relationship with Margaret, a 36-year-old arts program...
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    Faustino Oro (category Argentine chess players)
    2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy. In 2023, when he was nine, he received a rating of 2300 (classical), becoming the youngest chess player to have done...
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  • level of an adult expert performer Chess prodigy, a child who can beat experienced adult players at chess Prodigy, a persona of Spider-Man in the Spider-Man:...
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    1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US...
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    summit of the art of chess. Deeper insight into the nature of chess came with the American Paul Morphy, an extraordinary chess prodigy. Morphy won against...
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  • The Queen's Gambit (miniseries) (category 2020 in chess)
    Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a fictional American chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency...
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    Joshua Waitzkin (category American chess players)
    American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship...
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  • Anish Sarkar (category Indian chess players)
    youngest rated chess prodigy at 3 years". November 3, 2024. "Little Master: 3-year-old Anish Sarkar becomes youngest rated chess prodigy". November 2,...
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  • Chess Championship". SportsDesk. Retrieved 2023-10-14. "Maltese chess prodigy sets new blitz record". bard.google.com. Retrieved 2023-10-14. "Chess Chat...
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    adult players and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become grandmasters or even World Chess Champions. Sumire Nakamura (b...
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  • with the two playing chess and banging on improvised drum sets, recalling breakout roles of the actors: Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy in The Queen's Gambit...
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  • Roman Shogdzhiev (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    Roman Savrovich Shogdzhiev is a Russian chess player and child chess prodigy. He was born in Elista, and later moved with his family to Moscow. In November...
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    American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, Five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he earned...
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  • K. K. Karanja (category American chess players)
    Karanja (born November 23, 1973) is an American chess player and former chess prodigy. He became a US Chess Federation Candidate Master at the age of 10...
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  • VG Nett om Sjakk". Vg.no. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 21 October 2013. Chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen: 'Bobby Fischer is my dream opponent'., 2015-12-16, CNN...
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    finest on record in the history of chess prodigies." Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was one of the leading American chess masters at the time of this game. He...
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    of the chess art. Deeper insight into the nature of chess came with two younger players. American Paul Morphy, an extraordinary chess prodigy, won against...
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    as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...
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  • Beth Harmon (category Fictional child prodigies)
    an orphanage in Kentucky, she is taught chess by the custodian Mr. Shaibel, and soon becomes a chess prodigy. While at the orphanage, she struggles with...
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    Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively...
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  • Aaron Reeve Mendes (category Canadian chess players)
    2025). "This 12-year-old chess prodigy recently became Canada's youngest international master". "Mangaluru: 12-year-old Chess prodigy Aaron Mendes becomes...
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    David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess grandmaster and commentator. A three-time British champion (2009, 2013 and 2014), he...
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    an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy emerged...
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    Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
    the elite level in classical chess at 125 games. A chess prodigy, Carlsen finished first in the C group of the Corus chess tournament shortly after he...
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    Shreyas Royal (category English chess players)
    Shreyas Royal (born 9 January 2009) is an English chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 7 months, making...
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  • Fred Waitzkin (category American chess writers)
    lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard. Waitzkin is the father of chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin and wrote a book about his son called Searching for...
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  • notable for appearing in the Netflix Western series Godless (2017) and chess prodigy series The Queen’s Gambit (2020). He appears with his twin brother Russell...
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