Bodhana Sivanandan, The Youngest Female Chess Player To Win Againstena

JAKARTA - Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old young British chess player, made history as the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster.

Sivanan and managed to record the record after making a win against 60-year-oldenad Peter Wells in the final round of the 2025 English Chess Championships at Liverpool, on Sunday, August 10.

"Bodhana Sivanan and made history as the youngest female chess player to ever beat a grandmaster!" wrote the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in a social media post quoted by CBS.

Sivanan and stop Wells from winning titles at the age of 10, five months, and three days. This broke the 2019 record held by Carissa totaling from the United States (10 years, 11 months, and 20 days).

Sivanandan himself has not received the grandmaster's title. To achieve that position, he must reach the FIDE rating elongation of at least 2500 and meet the three Grandmaster norms in a tournament that meets the requirements of the international chess parent.

However, she now holds the title Woman International Master (WIM), which is the second-highest title for chess player afteramamaster. This made him the youngest chess player to win that position.

In 2024 yesterday, Bodhana is expected to be the youngest person to ever represent England internationally in any sport when she was selected to enter the British women's team for the Chess Olympics in Hungary.

His father, Siva, on one occasion said that he did not know where his daughter got the talent to play chess. The reason is, he and his wife, who are technical graduates, are not good at playing the sport of brain hope.

According to a BBC report, Sivanan and began to pursue chess during the Covid-19 pandemic when he was only five years old. He originally got to know this game during a visit to Chess Fest at Trafalgar Square, central London, in July 2024.

"At that time in 2020, it was Covid. So, one of my father's friends was going back to India and he had several toys and books, and he gave them to us. In one of the bags, I saw a chessboard, and I was interested in the pieces.

"I wanted to use the pieces as toys. However, my father said that I could play the game and then I started it," he said.

Siva said that no one in their family was proficient in playing chess before their daughter.

"I try to track down whether there are my cousins or anyone who plays chess, but no one has chess energy or chess skills, no one plays for any chess events," he said.