A ten-year-old chess prodigy has made historical past because the youngest feminine participant ever to defeat a grandmaster, which is the best distinction any chess participant can earn.
Bodhana Sivanandan earned the spectacular report Sunday throughout the last spherical of this yr’s British Chess Championships in Liverpool, England, in line with the Worldwide Chess Federation, which governs the game of chess. Sivandan, from the London space, beat 60-year-old grandmaster Peter Wells to take house the title.
“British sensation Bodhana Sivanandan has made historical past by changing into the youngest feminine chess participant ever to beat a grandmaster!” the Worldwide Chess Federation wrote Monday in a social media publish. “Sivanandan’s victory at 10 years, 5 months and three days beats the 2019 report held by American Carissa Yip (10 years, 11 months and 20 days).”
Sivanandan hasn’t but acquired a grandmaster title of her personal, reported BBC Information, a CBS Information accomplice, as the game’s governing physique requires that every chess participant reaches a sequence of milestones first.
Her new class, “girl worldwide grasp,” is the second-highest title for feminine gamers after “grandmaster,” in line with the outlet. Sivanandan instructed BBC Information that she began to play throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was simply 5 years outdated.
Malcolm Pein, a world chess grasp whose charity group helps present college students with entry to the sport, mentioned Sivanandan is trailblazing in an space that historically had been dominated by males.
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“She’s so composed, she’s so modest and but she’s so completely sensible at chess,” Pein instructed BBC Information. “She may simply turn into the ladies’s world champion, or perhaps the general world champion. And definitely I imagine that she’s heading in the right direction to turn into a grandmaster.”
In December, an 8-year-old chess prodigy grew to become the youngest all-around participant to beat a grandmaster. The boy, Aswath Kaushik, received his match in opposition to 37-year-old Jacek Stopa at a chess event in Switzerland. Kaushik, who’s from India however lives in Singapore, had changed one other younger virtuoso who only a week earlier earned the title himself. That boy, Leonid Ivanovic of Serbia, was barely older than Kaushik at 8 years and 11 months.
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