Talk:Tanitoluwa Adewumi

Tournament record

Well-sourced, but IMO not to be included in the article per WP:EXCESS until he has a tournament record which is notable in itself; this info is recorded here for possible future use.

Date	Tournament	Location	Section	Elo rating	Score	Position
March 9-10, 2019	New York State Scholastic Championships	Saratoga Springs, New York	K-3	1473	5.5/6 (5+1=0-)	1/74
May 10-12, 2019	United States Elementary Championship	Nashville, Tennessee	K-3	1534	5.0/7 (5+0=2-)	29/180

The 2020 NYS Scholastics were canceled because of COVID-19.Narky Blert (talk) 16:39, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

References

Trivia

IMO, not worth adding to the article now or possibly ever, even as WP:ELs, per WP:EXCESS and WP:TRIVIA; but they're fun, contain information unavailable elsewhere, are from an original and good source, and weren't easy to find; they're worth recording for general interest.

• Impact Coaching Network (March 30, 2019). Tanitoluwa Adewumi vs GM Hikaru Nakamura. YouTube. Retrieved March 2, 2020. Blitz game, Adewumi vs. Hikaru Nakamura 0-1
• Impact Coaching Network (March 30, 2019). Tanitoluwa Adewumi vs US Women’s Champion WGM Jennifer Yun. YouTube. Retrieved March 2, 2020. Blitz game, Adewumi vs. Jennifer Yu 0-1
• Impact Coaching Network (March 30, 2019). Tanitoluwa Adewumi vs Rex Sinquefield. YouTube. Retrieved March 2, 2020. Blitz game, Rex Sinquefield vs. Adewumi 0-1
• Impact Coaching Network (March 31, 2019). 2019 U.S. Chess Championships: Tani & Chirila's Puzzle Rush!. YouTube. Retrieved March 9, 2020. Adewumi and Ioan-Cristian Chirilă
• Impact Coaching Network (April 2, 2019). Tanitoluwa Adewumi vs GM Fabiano Caruana. YouTube. Retrieved March 9, 2020. Blitz game, Adewumi vs. Fabiano Caruana 0-1

Narky Blert (talk) 16:39, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Another video:

• Hikaru Nakamura (June 14, 2020). The 9 Year Old Prodigy Tanitoluwa Adewumi vs Hikaru Nakamura in Puzzle Rush. Retrieved June 16, 2020. Narky Blert (talk) 16:48, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 14:39, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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• ...Eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York State Chess Championship while he and his Nigerian refugee family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan?
  • ALT1:...Eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York State Chess Championship while he and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan seeking religious asylum?

• Comment: This is the 4th of my 5 "free" nominations

Created by Narky Blert (talk). Self-nominated at 16:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC).

• Suggest rearranging the hook as "...Eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York State Chess Championship while he and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan?" because "his Nigerian refugee family" reads awkwardly. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:51, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

• @The Squirrel Conspiracy: That hook is a marked improvement on both of my suggestions. Narky Blert (talk) 19:45, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

• Striking the original hooks, and formally writing out the suggested rearranged hook as ALT0a:

• ALT0a: ... that eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York State Chess Championship while he and his family were living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan? BlueMoonset (talk) 02:04, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

• Full review needed now that hook set. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:04, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

• Article long enough, created and nominated the same day, hook ALT0a is interesting and worded well, supported by a reliable source [1] cited inline, no copyvio issues. Inline citations are used properly everywhere but I see one line at the end of the article which is unsourced so please fix that.. otherwise no big issues. Cheers, Sainsf (knock knock · am I there?) 16:28, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Elo Rating Discrepancy

We need to emphasize that Tani's practical Elo rating is around 2100, but his actual FIDE Rating is lower simply because matches over the board were suspended due to COVID. The discrepancy in the into makes that very confusing. CessnaMan1989 (talk) 18:04, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

The statement "On May 1, 2021, at only 10 years old, Adewumi crossed the 2200 Elo rating threshold needed to achieve the official USCF title of National Master, making him the 28th-youngest chess player in history ever to do so." is obviously wrong, especially when considering the next paragraph "In August, he won the under-12 division of the North American Youth Chess Championship with a score of 8/9. He became a FIDE Master, having surpassed a FIDE rating of 2100 in November 2021." According to the FIDE Rating Progress Chart he had a rating of 1821 in May 2021.--Kreuzberger (talk) 21:59, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Adewumi a FIDE Master

Adewumi is (or will soon be, once it's made official) now a FIDE Master. He has accomplished this due to his winning a qualifying tournament; see "TITLES TO BE AWARDED at " https://naycc2021.com/ which links to https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01DirectTitles2017 which details the tournaments and requirements to be directly awarded a FIDE title, regardless of rating.

@Sj: recently added, "This means that he can becoming a FIDE Master upon reaching a FIDE rating of 2100." to the article which, besides being unsourced, assumes he has not already qualified through the direct awarding of titles for winning certain tournaments, as Adewumi did. I'm going to go ahead and remove that line, and add to the article the fact that he has "earned" the title (using the verb chess.com chose to use). I don't think saying he IS a "FIDE Master" is correct until FIDE makes it official.SaltySaltyTears (talk) 20:56, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Disregard the above. According to https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01Regulations2017 there is indeed a requirement for a player to achieve a rating of 2100 at some time in their career to obtain the FIDE Master award, and it looks like chess.com is wrong. SaltySaltyTears (talk) 21:15, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for updating, nice to run into a vet. I didn't look for a cite since the article links to FIDE titles which describes the reqs at a high level. Nothing worse than when a usually-reliable source puts up an inaccurate post and then we get stuck in a round of citogenesis! Adewumi must be getting a lot of this; he put a correction in his own chess.com player profile. – SJ + 13:03, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Non-RS video

Not even suitable as an EL; just a fun video showing acknowledgment of his advancement as a player. Tani Destroys The King's Gambit!. Agadmator, 5 November 2022. Narky Blert (talk) 20:53, 10 November 2022 (UTC)