Boy the home office tried to deport at 9 wins British chess championship at 17

Embed from Getty Images Shreyas Royal today won the British chess championship aged only 17. By my calculation that makes him the youngest holder of the title - he breaks Michael Adams's record by a couple of months, just as he broke David Howell's record to become Britain's youngest ever grandmaster at 15. I first wrote about Shreyas in 2018, under the headline The government is forcing Britain's…