00:00Meet Hussein Besu, who was just four years old when he started asking his father to teach
00:05him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings.
00:09After mastering the basic moves, Hussein swiftly surprised everyone around him with his affinity
00:15and natural talent for the game.
00:17In our family, we always played chess together, my father and I with my brothers.
00:22Hussein used to come and start asking how to move the pieces, how to play the game,
00:26and this is how he learned the basic moves of chess.
00:29Then he started seeing tactical moves we wouldn't see.
00:32After six or seven months, Hussein was very, very good at chess.
00:37The Besu family, who hail from Syria, settled in the western German town of Lippstadt in
00:432016 as refugees.
00:45According to Reuters, the first thing Father Mustafa did was buy a chess set and find a
00:50youth chess club for Hussein in the small town.
00:53The youth club chess trainers quickly noticed how talented Besu was at the game and pushed
00:58him to compete at the state level where Besu has been ranking among the top players of
01:03his age.
01:04His family have now launched a crowdfunding campaign to help fund more training and the
01:09cost of travel to these tournaments.
01:11They hope to soon find a sponsor for young Besu and honestly, I don't think it will take long
01:17to do so.
01:18same day.
01:18spring
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