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Meet Aarit Kapil the 9-year-old Chess prodigy who drew with Magnus Carlsen
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The Indian Chess circuit has been growing with leaps and bounds. Just a few weeks ago Gukesh Dommaraju defeated Magnus Carlsen in the tournament and now the nine-year-old prodigy from Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, Aarit Kapil has managed to draw a game with Carlsen who is currently ranked in the world.
Carlsen and Kapil played against each other in an online blitz game during the Early Titled Tuesday Competition. Kapil is a fifth standard student in the Somerville School who started playing Chess when he was just 5-year-old. And in just 4 years of experience he has achieved a feat no one thought he would, drawing a match with one of the best chess players in the world.
The Early Titled Tuesday Competition was open to players with FIDE titles along with them it also featured elite grandmasters such as Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Aarit Kapil also participated in that competition while he was currently competing in the FIDE World Cadets Cup under 10-category.
Vijay, Aarit’s father, talked about how the young prodigy got into the sport playing with his elder sister Aarna who taught him in the beginning. Aarit was a quick learner and was able to defeat his father in a game. His father stated that Aarit won an international tournament within a day of getting a coach.
“He was five years old when his elder sister Aarna taught him chess. In one week, he was beating us. Not like I am a serious playe.. But we saw his potential, so we got him working with a coach. And in a few days, he won an international online tournament. Sometimes when he has a bad tournament, we jokingly tell him we’ll stop your chess, to which he says, ‘Do whatever you can, I won’t stop playing chess,” his father, Vijay, stated.