How This Australian Chess Prodigy Stacks Up Against the World’s Best Juniors | Full Episode

Chess is one of the world’s fastest growing sports and Australian kids are making big moves. Dateline follows a child prodigy to the Netherlands for the world's biggest junior chess tournament.
00:00 Intro
01:31 Who are Australia’s grandmasters
01:59 Why chess is growing in popularity
02:41 Meet Yifei Hu, one of Australia’s top junior player
06:52 The 2023 FIDE World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad
09:31 Australia vs Cyprus
13:07 How the Australian team practices
15:38 Why winning an international competition is a big deal in some countries
16:11 Australia vs Estonia
18:34 How to handle losses is one of the biggest challenges in chess
19:17 Why there are so few girls and women in professional chess
21:19 Top floor: Australia vs England
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