‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’
What happened
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 person ever to hold the title of woman grandmaster at the Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan while playing on a car booster seat so she could reach the board. By Tuesday morning she was back at school in north London for a design and te…
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