Frisco Del Rosario (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} frdelrosario) wrote,@ 2009-11-12 14:40:00 |
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This headline was a grabber: Carjacking Suspect Former Child Chess Prodigy.
Greeeeat, I thought. Another one of my friends making us all look bad. But Shamsiddin Saleem, charged with carjacking and attempted murder, is no one I know, and neither is he on the US Chess Federation rating list.
Google provided this story from the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, which said "in 1998, Saleem placed fifth in the Boynton Beach Police Athletic League chess tournament."
Fifth in a PAL chess tournament, and his father told the wire reporter "his son was once a master chess player whose life took a turn in the wrong direction".
Dad, maybe the kid had already taken a wrong turn before he most overstated the significance of his chess accomplishment?
Greeeeat, I thought. Another one of my friends making us all look bad. But Shamsiddin Saleem, charged with carjacking and attempted murder, is no one I know, and neither is he on the US Chess Federation rating list.
Google provided this story from the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, which said "in 1998, Saleem placed fifth in the Boynton Beach Police Athletic League chess tournament."
Fifth in a PAL chess tournament, and his father told the wire reporter "his son was once a master chess player whose life took a turn in the wrong direction".
Dad, maybe the kid had already taken a wrong turn before he most overstated the significance of his chess accomplishment?
