'I've lost count of how many chess grandmasters I've beaten'

Frederick Waldhausen Gordon won the British Rapidplay Championship last month [BBC] Frederick Waldhausen Gordon is in the middle of revising for his National 5 exams. But ask the 15-year-old how many chess grandmasters he has beaten, and he claims he does not keep count. The teenager, from Edinburgh, defeated one of the world's top 100 players in the final of the British Rapidplay Championship to claim the title last month - becoming the first Scottish player to do so.

He is now gearing up to represent the Scottish senior team at the Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan later this year. However, there is a business studies exam on 24 April for the George Heriot's School pupil to navigate first. "I just want to get better and just see what happens," he said.

"I have my exams soon, obviously, so I just want to see where it takes me. " Why are sportspeople obsessed with chess? The boy who beat a grandmaster - but didn't want to boast Frederick is ranked 1,037th in the world by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

BBC Scotland spoke to him in 2021 , shortly after he had defeated Croatian grandmaster Bogdan Lalic at the age of 10. He is now ranked as a FIDE master and the organisation's council is considering whether to promote him to international master. At the Rapidplay Championship in Peterborough Gawain Mororoa Jones, who is ranked more than 950 places ahead of Frederick, was the latest grandmaster to be beaten by the teenager.