Power cut, dying laptop, flickering candle: Still Sivakasi’s 8-year-old chess whiz upsets World No 7

6 min readUpdated: May 3, 2026 06:03 PM IST Sivakasi, the city known for being the firecracker capital of India, jolted the chess world with an almighty bang on Friday night. Tamizh Amudhan, an eight-year-old boy from the Tamil Nadu city, took down Vincent Keymer, […]