Hey, a local 12 year old from Foster City just won the world chess championship for the boys 12 and under age bracket. Champ Daniel Naroditsky won 9 games, lost 1, and played to a draw with the previous number 1 ranked preteen male. The Chron was unable to talk to him because of the time difference in Turkey (where the championships were held), but Daniel's proud father reports that Daniel's first question after winning was "do I have to go to school on Friday?"

Daniel's been playing chess since he was six, and plays a couple times a week at the chess club in the SF Mechanics' Institute. Meanwhile, please enjoy the YouTube clip above of "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head from the musical Chess. Is that not totally weird that Murray Head is the brother of Anthony Stewart Head (who played Giles on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show)?