Eight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik becomes the youngest chess player to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess on Sunday, February 18. He beats 37-year-old Polish grandmaster Jacek Stopa.
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00:00 8-year-old Ashwat Kausik becomes the youngest chess player to defeat a Grandmaster in classical
00:06 chess on Sunday, February 18.
00:09 Ashwat beats 37-year-old Grandmaster Jacek Stopak at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in
00:15 Switzerland, breaking the world record set a month earlier by Leonid Ivanovic from Serbia
00:20 when he beat Grandmaster Milko Popcev.
00:23 Ivanovic is also aged 8 but was born 5 months before Ashwat.
00:27 Chess.com says Ashwat learned to play the game at the age of 4 and became a World Under
00:32 8 Rapid Champion in 2022.
00:36 Ashwat's father says he picked up the game on his own whilst playing with his grandparents.
00:40 Ashwat finished the tournament in 12th place after losing to international master Harry
00:45 Greve.
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