Our Chess Champion Has a Home

Now Tani, as he is known, has a home, a six-figure bank account, scholarship offers from three elite private schools and an invitation to meet President Bill Clinton. “I think I am still dreaming,” said Tani’s dad, Kayode Adewumi. A Nigerian refugee who had learned chess only a bit more than a year earlier, he had just defeated kids from elite private schools to win the New York state chess championship for his age group.

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