India’s 96th chess grandmaster! From the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan to GM at 14: The story of Ethan Vaz | Chess News

Ethan Vaz, the 96th Grand Master of India New Delhi: The exact date is March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Three reactor cores melted, causing the largest release of radioactive material since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. At the time, Linda Fernandez was pregnant…

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