Updated On: 30 September, 2009 07:24 AM IST | | Manisha Mohite
With an elo rating of 1,283, five-year-old Kandivili boy Ridit Nimdia becomes the youngest rated chess player in the world
With an elo rating of 1,283, five-year-old Kandivili boy Ridit Nimdia becomes the youngest rated chess player in the world
Ridit Sunil Nimdia, all of five years, has to exert himself to reach for the chess pieces after sitting on a stack of chairs during tournaments but once his tiny fingers grip the pieces, it is his opponents who have to sweat it out to untangle themselves from the clutches of defeat.
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