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| British chess player sets record by beating grandmaster at 10 |
| 2025-08-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] British chess player Bodhana Sivanandan beat a grandmaster at the age of 10, thus setting a record. This was reported on August 15 by CNN. "A 10-year-old girl has made history by becoming the youngest chess player ever to defeat a grandmaster," the publication states. It is specified that the young Shivanandan, playing in the British Chess Championship, beat 60-year-old grandmaster Pete Wells in the final game. The Indian-British player, who was 10 years, five months and three days old at the time, thus became the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster. She broke the record of American Carissa Yip, who beat US grandmaster Alexander Ivanov in 2019 at the age of 10 years and 11 months. Sivanandan has now achieved the status of Woman International Master, one level below the Grandmaster title. At the end of June, Norwegian grandmaster and 16th world chess champion Magnus Carlsen lost to 15-year-old Russian Maxim Ivannikov in the online tournament "Title Tuesday". The third round of the game ended on the 33rd move. Carlsen played with black pieces. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Poor child. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-16 15:00 |