Hawaii 7-Year-Old National Chess Champ
HONOLULU (KHON2) – A kindergartner from Hawaii is a national chess champion.
Kevin Ching, 7, of Mililani, and two other kids from the mainland – Katherine Zhuge, 6, of Palo Alto, California, and Nathan Walatka, 6, of South Bend, Indiana – won the kindergarten section of the US Chess Federation’s 2018 National K-12 Grade Championships.
More than 1,700 children competed in the weekend event in Orlando, Fla.
