Chess

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Last year, at least 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit, about a young chess prodigy, on Netflix. Sales of chess boards were up 87 percent afterward. Heck, I’ve started to try to teach my daughter.

But today, I’d like to share with you the story of a young kid who might turn out to be the real-life Beth Harmon.

(That’s the name of the protagonist in The Queen’s Gambit, in case your household wasn’t one of the 62 million.)

Meet Tanitoluwa Adewum, 10, who goes by “Tani,” and who just became the country’s newest national chess master, after winning a series of matches in Connecticut.

Tani’s story isn’t so much about his youth; he’s actually the 28th youngest chess master, which wouldn’t normally rate a column. Instead, it has more to do with where and how he learned to play the game.

At age 7, Tani, a refugee who had fled Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria, was living with his parents and his borther in a crowded, noisy New York City homeless shelter.

He started playing around wit…