Maybe the one yesterday?” he said when asked about his favourite game). His wit, like his chess skill, is far more developed than what one might expect for a second grader. Over Zoom, eight-year-old Aiden sits next to his mother in a yellow T-shirt and a pair of rectangular glasses. “Then I got third in nationals,” Aiden added, referring to the 34th Annual Canadian Chess Challenge hosted in Montreal last month. This year, he won Manitoba Provincial Champion for Grade 2,” his mother, Joan Wang said. Several medals and three championship trophies later, Aiden has made a name for himself as a young prodigy in Manitoba’s - and more recently, Canada’s - chess community.Įight-year-old Aiden Ling practices his chess game, while holding up a third place trophy he earned for his age category at the Chess’n Math Canadian Chess Challenge in Montreal last month.
“I started playing in January 2021,” the Linden Christian School second-grader said. While Aiden Ling’s peers were learning to tie their shoes, he was on his way to becoming one of Winnipeg’s youngest decorated chess champions. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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