by Kindergartener Sets Record for Youngest Competitive Anxiety
Madhya Pradesh Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, age 3, has achieved what child development experts describe as “the most efficient method of weaponizing childhood against itself”: becoming the world’s youngest rated chess player.
His father reported that after just one week of chess instruction, the boy could name all the pieces accurately. The logical next step? Professional competitive tournament play involving 4-5 hours of daily traininga schedule that would make career chess players weep quietly into their coffee.
“We noticed his mind was a sponge,” his father explained, apparently unaware that sponges are also porous and absorb everything indiscriminately, including stress. The boy has already defeated players aged 20, 22, and 29, which his parents frame as “success” rather than “a troubling sign of developmental anomaly.”
FIDE, the International Chess Federation, rated him 1572well above the 1400 minimumwhich either proves his brilliance or represents a serious algorithmic error. They’re not clarifying which.
“By next year, he’ll either be the youngest grandmaster ever or a deeply traumatized child who plays excellent chess,” predicted one child psychologist who preferred anonymity.
For more on how India turns childhood talent into competitive pressure faster than any nation on Earth, visit Bohiney Magazine’s investigation into achievement culture.
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