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School gate to checkmate: British chess prodigy, 11, is youngest ever woman grandmaster

School gate to checkmate: British chess prodigy, 11, is youngest ever woman grandmaster
🏆 Sports News · The Guardian · Oct 1, 2026

Bodhana Sivanandan’s father taught her to play age five and soon she was beating ex-champions. Now she is lighting up the Chess Olympiad 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

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