10-12 months-Previous Chess Participant
Youngest Ever To Beat Grandmaster
Revealed
A ten-year-old chess participant made historical past earlier this month … when she turned the youngest ever to take down a grandmaster.
The unbelievable feat occurred on Aug. 10 on the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, when Bodhana Sivanandan beat 60-year-old Peter Wells within the tourney’s last spherical.
Carissa Yip, who was additionally 10, beforehand set the report in 2019 … however the Worldwide Chess Federation stated as a result of Sivanandan’s roughly six months youthful, she’s now the proud proprietor of the title.
The little woman instructed BBC again in 2024 she picked up the sport some 5 years in the past through the COVID pandemic … when her father’s pal gave her some toys that included a chess board.
🇬🇧♟👏 British sensation Bodhana Sivanandan has made historical past by changing into the youngest feminine chess participant ever to beat a grandmaster!
The ten-year-old, from Harrow, pulled off the win on Sunday towards 60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells within the final spherical of the 2025 British… pic.twitter.com/bAMqeyFZHm
— Worldwide Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) August 11, 2025
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“I needed to make use of the items as toys,” she instructed the outlet. “As an alternative, my dad stated that I might play the sport, after which I began from there.”
She added that she sooner or later desires to turn out to be a grandmaster … and given what she simply completed, it definitely appears that is extra of a when — not an if — at this level.
