The Times of London has a story on this player and I verified the information on the FIDE website:
Must be an AI planted in his brain! 
You’re exaggerating his feat, Mike. The articles I read said he was 3 years 7 months 20 days, so he is WAYYYY older than 2 1/2.
Yeah, he was 2 1/2 when he started playing chess. Header updated.