‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’
Bodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersView image in fullscreenBodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024. By Tuesday morning she was back at school in north London for a design and technology lesson.Bodhana has to juggle the competing pressures of being an international chess sensation with the more ordinary challenges of childhood and her first term at secondary school.She takes it all in her stride.
- ▪Bodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024.
- ▪Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersView image in fullscreenBodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024.
- ▪By Tuesday morning she was back at school in north London for a design and technology lesson.Bodhana has to juggle the competing pressures of being an international chess sensation with the more ordinary challenges of childhood and her firs
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Bodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersView image in fullscreenBodhana Sivanandan, then nine, competing in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in October 2024. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersChess‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British championMatthew WeaverThu 1 Oct 2026 10.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleOver 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.
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