A 10 year old chess sensation from north-west London has made history as the youngest person to secure the woman international master title.
Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, also recently became the youngest female player to defeat a chess grandmaster at the 2025 British Chess Championship earlier this month.
In 2024, Bodhana was believed to have become the youngest individual ever to represent England in any sport when she was chosen for the England Women’s Team at the Chess Olympiad in Hungary.
Her father, Siva, previously told reporters he had no idea where her remarkable talent came from, as neither he nor his wife, both engineering graduates, are skilled at chess.
