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Chess Life Online 2011 Meet the Youngest African-American Master, Joshua Colas
Chess Life Online 2011 Meet the Youngest African-American Master, Joshua Colas | Meet the Youngest African-American Master, Joshua Colas |
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| March 9, 2011 | |
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The US Chess Scoop caught up with 12-year-old NM Joshua Colas at the US Amateur Team
East, where he talked about breaking the record for the youngest-ever
African-American master (previously held by Justus Williams) and his goals for the future. Joshua Colas first topped 2200 at a Four Rated Games tonight event at the Marshall Chess Club on December 16th, after which he received a National Master certificate from the USCF. Since then Joshua's rating has been affected by a re-rate, an upward swing that brought him up to 2245 and a recent slump that we trust he'll recover from in short order. Here is one of Joshua's recent games, an exciting draw against a previous keeper of the record for the youngest African-American master, Kassa Korley. This game was contested at a celebratory tournament for Justus Williams breaking 2200, held at the Marshall Chess Club. 5360 |
