AHMEDABAD: Five-year-old Dhairya Amit Shroff of Gujarat has become the youngest rated chess player in India and the second youngest in the world. He achieved the feat at the age of five years, four months and two days, breaking the record of Pune’s Sarthak Deshpande, who became the youngest rated player at five years and 11 months.
The Lausanne-headquartered global chess body FIDE too confirmed Dhairya as India’s youngest rated chess player and the second youngest in the world.
