Teen earns national chess master title after 4th brain surgery: 'Unheard of'
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Griffin McConnell, 17, has earned the rare title of national master in chess, just one year after his fourth brain surgery.
"Chess was kind of a part of me." "I want to see how far I can really go." "To go from expert to master in four and a half months is, for anybody, unheard of… It’s certainly unheard of for somebody with a massive brain injury and four brain surgeries."
"He had to learn how to talk from scratch," Griffin’s dad, Kevin McConnell of Golden, Colorado, told Fox News Digital." He had to learn how to walk, how to write… He went from right-handed to left-handed."
"It was a long, long recovery," he added. "After we got out of the hospital, it was another two years of him in a wheelchair and lots of occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy."
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