A ten-year-old chess prodigy has made historical past because the youngest feminine participant ever to defeat a grandmaster, which is the very best distinction any chess participant can earn.
Bodhana Sivanandan earned the spectacular file Sunday in the course of the last spherical of this 12 months’s British Chess Championships in Liverpool, England, in accordance 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 dwelling 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 file held by American Carissa Yip (10 years, 11 months and 20 days).”
Sivanandan hasn’t but obtained 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 accordance with the outlet. Sivanandan informed BBC Information that she began to play in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was simply 5 years previous.
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 informed BBC Information. “She might simply turn into the ladies’s world champion, or possibly the general world champion. And definitely I consider that she’s on track 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, gained his match in opposition to 37-year-old Jacek Stopa at a chess match 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.
