February 07, 1959 Evening Post, Chess Notes, by A. W. O., Bristol, Avon, England

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Chess 07 Feb 1959, Sat Evening Post (Bristol, Avon, England) Newspapers.com

YOUNGSTERS…
Shortly after writing last week of Bobby Fischer, the 15-year-old chess champion of the U.S., I read in “Chess” (2s, 8d, post free from Sutton Coldfield) of Ernest Kim, whose youthful exploits over the chessboard make Bobby Fischer look a greybeard. At the age of five, Ernest Kim has beaten everybody else in his hometown at Tashkent, Central Asia.
And they play good chess in Central Asia these days!