A
six-year-old schoolgirl is causing a sensation in the normally staid world of
chess - by beating adult competition to land two major titles in just a month.
Little
Carolina Espinosa Cancino, who has been playing since she was two, likes
nothing more than singing along to her favourite musical, Annie or the
soundtrack to Disney film Frozen.
But
when the chess board comes out she switches into junior master mode, leaving
opponents more than three times her age trailing in her wake.
Carolina,
a pupil at Sacred Heart Primary school in Girvan, South Ayrshire, has won the
2016 Scottish Junior Chess Tournament.
She
played for five gruelling hours before taking the title. Then, last week, she
scooped another junior title at a championships held in Croy, Lanarkshire.,
beating adult players.
Carolina
comes from a long line of chess champions and was taught by her father,
entrepreneur Jose Miguel Espinosa.
She
is following in the footsteps of her older siblings, Miguel, 20, Cristina, 19,
and Monica, 15, who are all already international chess players.
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