The youngest Indian ever to become a rated chess player, seven-year-old Dev Shah from Mumbai, has become the world champion in the Under-7 category in the World Schools Chess Championships that concluded at Juiz de Fora in Brazil recently.


Dev Shah 

Dev, who trains at the South Mumbai Chess Academy and is a student of the Dhrubhai Ambani School, was among three boys who scored the highest score — 7.5 points out of 9 — to tie with Ochirbat Lkhahvajamts of Mongolia and Sindarov Islombek of Uzbekistan.