Chess champ wins £65,000 public school scholarship
By Andy Whelan
A schoolboy has won a £65,000 scholarship to a top public school – to play chess.
Rhys Cumming will soon be saying goodbye to his friends at Brighton College Prep School and packing his bags for Millfield School in Somerset.
The 12-year-old has won a scholarship worth 50 per cent of the fees for five years at the £24,000-a-year boarding school, one of the few in the country to have a full-time chess teacher.
The youngster, from Sackville Road in Hove, is a member of the England under 14s and Sussex under 13s squad.
He won the Sussex under 13 grand prix at a tournament in Worthing on Saturday.
Rhys will start school in September and is the first boy to be awarded the scholarship.
He said: “I’m looking forward to going because boarding sounds like fun and they play a lot of sport.
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Indeed, Millfield School is a very famous school in England as it is very much orientated towards sport. My own father went there on a swimming scholarship and they always produce the best school sports teams.
Does Rhys have a FIDE rating or FIDE title yet?
Matt, his rating is 1818 (you can look it up at the FIDE website).