Chess Champions

Bobby Fischer began playing chess at the age of six.

Bobby Fischer could beat grandmasters at the age of eleven.

Joe Capablanca and Anatoly Karpove both learned how to play the game at the age of four.

Anatoly also was a master at the age of fifteen.

Bent Larsen and Max Euwe learned chess at the age of six.

Tigran Petrosian learned at the age of eight and by the age of twenty he had the strength of a grandmaster.

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Emanual Lasker began playing at the age of eleven.

Wilhelm Steinitz learned at the age of twelve from his school friends.