A nine-year-old chess prodigy challenged the home secretary to a game at parliament after he stopped the boy being deported.
Shreyas Royal, who has been described as the greatest British chess prospect in a generation, beat Sajid Javid easily after being invited to his office on Wednesday.
Two months earlier Jitendra Singh, Shreyas’s father, was preparing to take his family back to India because his work visa was due to expire. Shreyas was distraught but the family were told that there could be no exceptions.
Experts believe that Shreyas could become a grandmaster by the age of 12, a feat only achieved twice, and Mr Javid intervened after the case attracted press coverage, including a leading article in The Times. Mr Singh was awarded
