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RIVER HILLS, Wis. A battle between two siblings rages on quietly. A younger sister squares up against the older brother in a game of intellectual mastery with family pride on the line. Even though neither talks, their actions speak loudly.

Hersh Singh and his younger sister Aradh Kaur are in a game of wit and strategy trying to beat the other in chess.

Hersh Singh

The two are chess prodigies attending the University School of Milwaukee in River Hills.

I started with it at a really young age, and liked it, and I improved fast. So I wanted to keep going with it," 17-year-old senior Hersh Singh said.

Hersh is a FIDE Master. That's the third-highest title the international chess governing body can give. The next are international master and grandmaster.

Older brother Hersh Singh is a FIDE Master. Thats the third-highest title the international chess governing body can give. The next are international master and grandmaster. He's one of only a handful in the state to hold the title.

Hersh is a senior at the University School of Milwaukee in River Hills. Hes just 17 and is the 140th-best chess player in the country. Even though Hersh is soft-spoken, he's competitive.

His main focus in chess is, Doing good in prestigious tournaments," he said.

That is a humble way of saying winning. He has won four national titles, gotten 2nd 5 times, and recently got 2nd at the Pan American Chess Festival this past summer to earn his title of FIDE Master.

He practices for anywhere between one and a half to four hours a day. Its a grueling regime, but there is a big goal in mind to become a grandmaster.

His sister, Aradh is also a chess prodigy. When she was 14, she tied for 1st in the Pan-American games and now at 16 she recently won a national tournament in Florida.

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It started out when my grandfather taught me and it seemed like an interesting game and I kept playing, and I realized I was kind of good at it. So I kept playing, and it was fun," Kaur, a sophomore at the University School of Milwaukee, said.

Like her brother, her favorite part of chess is winning.

But only one can come out on top of a game between these two siblings. While it's not a formally ranked game, the winner gets the title of champion of the house.

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