This throwback video by the ‘Atlantic’, captures the insights, ponderings and precocious nuggets of wisdom from young chess champs, in a series of interviews recorded against the broader backdrop of the 2019 Elementary Chess Championships in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reading the accompanying article, here.

Studies suggest that the cognitive-boosting board game, which has endured around the world for more than 15 centuries, improves a child’s visual memory, attention span, spatial-reasoning ability, critical thinking, mental discipline, creativity, maths skills and logical reasoning.

Among the young interviewees is former refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi, who, today as a 10-year-old, has just become the US’ newest national chess master. When he started playing, Adewumi and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan, having had to flee religious persecution by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in their home country of Nigeria.

View the original video here.

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