Eight-year-old Israeli student Noam Sasson won an international chess competition for children aged nine and under, held on the Greek island of Rhodes. The Israeli chess prodigy earned his victory after a tense, nine-day battle with his Turkish counterpart for the top spot. The victory in Greece is the latest in a number of impressive achievements in young Sasson’s chess career.
Quote: “Sasson played as a representative of Chess4All, the Israeli chess organization responsible for the Chess4Solidarity initiative, in which Israelis and chess players from nations who do not have diplomatic relations with Israel compete against each other.”
Source: Introduction and quotation from The Jerusalem Post
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