11-year-old Tani Adewumi wins the 2022 New York IM Summer Invitational

The 2022 New York GM/IM Summer Invitational took place from 7-11 July at Hilton Garden Inn Midtown Park Ave, New York, featuring four 10-player round-robin tournaments for grandmasters and international masters norms. The line-up of the International master C tournament included the 11-year-old US star Tani Adewumi who became the National master at the age of 10.

After 9 played rounds, Tani Adewumi scored 7/9 points to be the sole winner of the IM C event and won his second IM norm. Congratulations!

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Quite an impressive performance by Tani Adewumi, who got his 2nd IM norm from the 2022 New York Summer Invitational with 7 points out of a possible 9. Super proud of you Tani! Bravo 👏

Cc: @kadewumi @TaniAdewumi pic.twitter.com/nKUTTJEJdr

— yemifawole.eth (@OyeyemiFawole) July 11, 2022

The quest to GM continues for @TaniAdewumi who just earned his 2nd IM norm at the NY Summer Invitational! I wonder if he will let me come on his @ChessKidcom show? pic.twitter.com/uWj2MEQWeI

— Mike Klein (@ChessMike) July 11, 2022