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11-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Woman Chess Grandmaster

London schoolgirl Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, has become the youngest person ever to hold the title of woman grandmaster at the Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan.

The chess prodigy, who needed to play on a car booster seat to reach the board, learned the game from her father at age five and defeated former British champion three years later.

By Tuesday morning after her historic achievement, the first-term secondary school student was back in her north London classroom, balancing international chess fame with ordinary childhood challenges. sportbet.rodeo