Hassabis was born to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother and grew up in North London.[10][22] A child prodigy in chess from the age of 4,[23][24] Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13 with an Elo rating of 2300 and captained many of the England junior chess teams.[25] He represented the University of Cambridge in the Oxford-Cambridge varsity chess matches of 1995,[26] 1996[27] and 1997,[28] winning a half blue.
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