This is Tanitoluwa Emmanuel Adewumi, also known as Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi the newest chess master, I know most of you haven’t noticed but I have, HE IS BLACK!!!!, his story is a very simple one, he comes from very humble beginnings, did I mention he is only 12 years old.? ???? yes he is only 12 years old and if all goes well he might become one of the youngest chess grandmasters with the likes of Abhimanyu Mishra might. Yes, he is that good!!!!!!. He came to America with his parents, when they were threatened by violence in his home country Nigeria. They were granted religious asylum. Upon arrival to the states, they lived in a homeless shelter in NY.
Tani was introduced to chess while in school, he excelled and become one of the youngest chess masters when at only 10 years old he achieved the scores to the USFC making him the 28th youngest chess player in history to become the newest chess master!! 1.
One of the reasons I’m telling this story is for one no one tells stories like that, especially about black boys, secondly, you hear in the “unconscious community” all the time about how we need to play chess not checkers. They say a lot of things about chess yet we don’t know about this boy.
The interesting story is Paramount has secured the right to make a movie about his life, and YES he is only 12 years old. He is black and we should have told his story a long time ago….
LOL, this is too much of a good story, it doesn’t have the necessary drama!!!
