Not many people can claim to have shattered a major American record at 13 years, 10 months and 27 days. But chess prodigy Samuel Sevian can.
At a chess tournament in St Louis on Nov 23, Samuel Sevian won all four of his games to push his World Chess Federation rating past 2,500 points – enough to secure himself the title of America's youngest-ever Grandmaster, easily besting the country's previous record holder by more than a year.
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