Hussain Besou was four when he started asking his father to teach him to play chess and now, aged 11, Besou will play for the German chess team at the Mitropa Cup in Croatia. He will be the youngest player to represent the country in the history of the German Chess Federation.
Besou’s father Mustafa said: ‘In our family we always played chess together … Hussain started asking how to move the pieces, how to play the game, and this is how he learned the basic moves of chess. Then he started seeing tactical moves we wouldn’t see.”
