At just three years old, a young boy from India has become the youngest chess player to earn an official rating from the International Chess Federation.

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, born in 2022, beat multiple opponents — far older than him — to earn a 1,572 rating in rapid chess.

To become the youngest rated player, Sarwagya beat 22-year-old Abhijeet Awasthi (rated 1,542), 29-year-old Shubham Chourasiya (rated 1,559), 20-year-old Yogesh Namdev (rated 1,696) and Abhijeet Awasthi (1542) at several different tournaments, some where grandmasters were competing, according to The Indian Express .

The base rating any chess player can have is 1,400; any lower and they are considered unrated. To become a Grand Master, players tend to exceed a 2,500 rating.

The scale estimates a player’s skills

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