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Meet Joshua Colas – the youngest African American chess master in history
There were plenty of signs that 16-year-old Joshua Colas was a chess prodigy.
At age 12, Colas became the youngest African American chess master in history. Earlier this month, he won the national chess championship for the second consecutive year. His goal is to attain the highest rank in chess, grandmaster.
His family is running an Indiegogo campaign to cover the requisite tournament fees and travel costs. So far, they have raised just over US$11,000 with a goal of raising about US$24,000.
The Colas family lives just north of New York City. Colas grew up watching his dad play chess, and at age seven he asked to be taught the rules. Within months, his father Guy said, “I was giving him puzzles that people who had been playing chess for years could not solve, and he was able to solve them instantly.”
Read more: Huffington Post