London chess prodigy, 10, becomes Woman International Master

A 10 -year -old chess genius from Northwest London became the youngest person to win the title of female international master.

Bodhana Sivanandan from Harrow was the youngest player who defeated a chess size at the 2025 British Chess Championship at the beginning of this month.

In 2024, Bodhana was thought to be the youngest person to internationally represent England when he was elected for the UK Women’s Team in Olympiad in Hungary.

His father Siva told the BBC before, that both engineering graduates did not know where he bought his daughter’s talent because he was not good in chess.

International Chess Federation He said in his social media account in X “In the last round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, 60 -year -old Grandmaster Peter Wells in the last round of the championships in Liverpool.”

The Federation added: “Sivanandan’s 10 years, five months and three -day victory, the American Carissa Yip (10 years, 11 months and 20 days) holds the record of the 2019 record.”

Grandmaster is the highest title that a chess player can obtain and rank is kept for life.

Bodhana’s new title – Woman International Master – is only the second top -level title given to women only to women.

Bodhana first received chess during the Covid-19 pandemia.

He told BBC last year: “When one of my father’s friends returned to India, he gave us a few bags [of possessions].

“There was a chessboard and I was interested in the pieces, so I started playing.”

Chess tells him that he makes him feel “good” and helps him with “mathematics, how to calculate”.