{"id":1999,"date":"2021-05-07T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:07:39","slug":"tanitoluwa-adewumi-10-years-old-was-once-homeless-is-now-a-u-s-national-chess-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/tanitoluwa-adewumi-10-years-old-was-once-homeless-is-now-a-u-s-national-chess-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanitoluwa Adewumi, 10-Years Old, Was Once Homeless is Now a U.S. National Chess Master"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nationwide<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year old boy who lives in New York, is now officially a U.S. National Chess Master. It is a dream come true for the boy who\u00a0won the New York State chess championship<\/a>\u00a0while living in a homeless shelter when he was just 8-years old.<\/p>\n

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Most recently, Adewumi won his latest championship when he ultimately earned a chess rating of 2223. The United States National Chess Master title is given to players who reached a rating of over 2200 points accrued from games, which Adewumi achieved.<\/p>\n

It came just 2 years after Adewumi gained national attention in winning the National State chess championship. He learned chess just within a year after he and his family arrived in the US in 2017 as they fled from Nigeria due to fears of terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

During their first years in New York City, his family was living in a homeless shelter near a school where there was a chess program. When several people learned about his situation, a GoFundMe fundraiser was launched and eventually raised $254,000, which helped them move to a better home where they currently reside.<\/p>\n

Last year, a biography called\u00a0My Name is Tani<\/em>\u00a0based on his life was published and is set to be produced as a film with Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n

Follow him on Instagram\u00a0@MyNameIsTani__<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nationwide\u00a0\u2014 Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year old boy who lives in New York, is now officially a U.S. National Chess Master. It is a dream come true for the boy who\u00a0won the New York State chess championship\u00a0while living in a homeless shelter when he was just 8-years old. Most recently, Adewumi won his latest championship when Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,182],"tags":[856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}