Gordey at the age of 9 already managed to become a world celebrity. This child prodigy won the Chinese talent show in 2015, he is fond of chess, speaks five languages and knows by heart more than five hundred Chinese idioms.
Biography
Gordey was born in Moscow on 08/18/2008. When he was only two months old, the family moved to China, where the boy’s dad, Yevgeny Kolesov, had a business. Mom Irina, a teacher by training, instilled a love of learning for her son. It was she who studied with Gordey in China under the school curriculum. But the father played a key role in the development of the boy; he developed his teaching methodology in a playful way, including the study of languages.
By the way, Gordey Kolesov has three younger sisters: Agatha, Yesenia and Milan. All of them, like his brother, speak five languages: Russian, Chinese, Spanish, English and French. Girls do tennis and judo. Gordey loves the sisters, helps them learn languages, and engages in calligraphy with them.
TV appearances
For the first time on the screen, Gordey Kolesov appeared in April 2014, in the program "Director for himself." There he demonstrated knowledge of hieroglyphs and sang in Chinese. In January 2015, he took part in the talent show on CCTV-1 and won. This is the first foreign child to have achieved such success on Chinese television. Gordey Kolesov became famous overnight, the video with his performance hit YouTube, and over a million people watched it in a week. In April 2015, when the number of video views reached four million, the boy, along with his father, was invited to participate in the Let They Talk program. At the same time, two documentaries about Gordey and his family were shot and shown on Chinese TV. Since then, the child began to be called a child prodigy.
Passion for chess
Gordey Kolesov began playing chess in 2014, and a couple of months later he took part in the Guangzhou Championship, where he won the silver award. Since 2015, the boy began to systematically learn this game and participate in various qualification tournaments. In April 2015, Gordey Kolesov completed the first category and won the championship in Shenzhen. In May of the same year, the young chess player took part in a tournament among schoolchildren, held in Thailand, and entered the top ten.
In 2016, Gordey Kolesov took six points out of nine at the All-China Chess Tournament, and the implementation of this norm allowed him to become a candidate for master of sports. He was the youngest participant in the contest to receive such a title. A year later, the boy won the “bronze” in blitz at the European Championship among students under ten years old. In 2018, he became the champion of Moscow and Europe in the category of up to eleven years. The victory at the European Chess Championship gave Gordey the right to participate in the world championship among schoolchildren in Tunisia in 2019.
Other achievements
Gordey Kolesov is a versatile child. In addition to the above, he is engaged in tennis, judo, drawing and calligraphy. He is one of the youngest speedcubers in the world. In 2015, the boy participated in a creative Russian-Chinese competition, at which he presented his drawing and took second place.
Now Gordey is studying in the 5th grade of one of Moscow schools according to the externship system. Together with his father, he leads the “Discovery of China” program on Channel One.