India's 5-year-old Tejas Tiwari is world's youngest player with FIDE rating
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The youngest FIDE rated player in the world is India's Tejas Tiwari, who achieved the feat at the tender age of five. Tejas has a FIDE standard rating of 1149. The kindergarten student achieved his first rating (of 1149) at the first Late Dhiraj Singh Raghuvanshi Open FIDE rated chess tournament in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, FIDE said.