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‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’

‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’
🏆 Sports News · The Guardian · Oct 1, 2026

London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British champion Over the weekend, 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest ever holder of the title of woman grandmaster at the Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan – while playing on a car booster seat so she coul

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