The Cortland County Clerk's Office issues and receives all applications and amendments for pistol permits. In Cortland County, Judge William F. Ames and Judge Julie A. Campbell are the licensing officers of handguns and licensing is completely within their discretion.
In 1998 Hikaru Nakamura (born Dec 9, 1987) bacame America's youngest master at 10 years, 79 days. In 2001 he became America's youngest International Master at age 13. The first list of grandmasters appeared in 1950, published by FIDE. There were 27 chess players nominated as the first grandmasters.
Some children would stuggle with chess when they are ten or twelve. For that matter, some adults struggle with chess. So being prepared to learn to play chess is not so much tied up in a number such as an age, as in the mental capacity to comprehend the game and the interest to learn it. At schools where I have worked chess clubs usually start for children at about second or third grade, so at about 7 or 8 years of age.