Michelle Zhang isn’t even a teenager yet, but that didn’t stop her from putting up a strong fight against one of the best chess players on the planet on Saturday.

World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura made a surprise appearance at a Prince Edward Island tournament over the weekend.

“Maybe he, like, underestimated me a little bit,” said Zhang, 12, after holding Nakamura at bay for 65 moves in a first-round match at the Maritime Open Chess Championship in Summerside, P.E.I.

Zhang, who lives in Halifax with her family and has been playing chess since age 6, says she competes in the tournament almost every year.

But Nakamura, who lives in the United States, was an unlikely last-minute addition.

A popular chess streamer online who boasts more than three million subscribers to his YouTube channel, Na

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