{"id":101058,"date":"2023-12-20T02:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=101058"},"modified":"2023-12-20T02:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:07:55","slug":"brit-schoolgirl-8-wins-at-european-chess-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/world-news\/brit-schoolgirl-8-wins-at-european-chess-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit schoolgirl, 8, wins at European chess championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> British schoolgirl wins best female player at European chess championships aged just EIGHT by beating a master 30 years older than her<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bodhana Sivanandan, from London, was crowned the best female player<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She a master chess player more than 30 years her senior<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She began playing chess when she was five, during the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British schoolgirl has become the best female chess player in Europe after winning a continental tournament at just eight years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow in northwest London, was named the best female player at the European rapid and blitz championship, held in Zagreb, Croatia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The win comes after she began playing chess at just five-years-old, during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She says she wants to become a grandmaster, England&#8217;s youngest Olympic gold medallist and to eventually win a world title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She beat her first international master, England&#8217;s women&#8217;s coach 39-year-old Lorin D&#8217;Costa, in the penultimate round, before drawing with the two-time Romanian champion\u00a0Vladislav Nevednichy, 54, in the final round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Competitors said that while they were impressed with her 5\/11 result in the rapid round, her\u00a0<span>performance in the 13-round blitz is\u00a0<\/span><span>being hailed by fellow players as phenomenal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Irina Bulmaga, 30, the Romanian international master and woman grandmaster who was also at the competition, said it was an &#8216;un\u00adbelievable result&#8217; by an eight-year-old, adding: &#8216;Winning the first prize among women ahead of me and a bunch of other experienced players! What a phenomenon she is!&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/01\/79154521-12883691-image-a-58_1703035733772.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bodhana Sivanandan (pictured) was invited to Downing Street this summer, and was seen playing chess with Rishi Sunak<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/01\/79154519-12883691-image-a-59_1703035737870.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>On just a few days, on December 28, she will be competing at the International Chess Congress in Hastings, East Sussex<\/p>\n<p><span>Lawrence Trent, the chess commentator and international master, wrote on X: &#8216;Bodhana Sivanandan is one of the greatest talents I&#8217;ve witnessed in recent memory. The maturity of her play, her sublime touch, it&#8217;s truly breathtaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I have no doubt she will be England&#8217;s greatest player and most likely one of the greatest the game has ever seen.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dominic Lawson, president of the English Chess Federation, told the Times the Londoner&#8217;s performance at the speed chess event was &#8216;completely remarkable but not that surprising, because she is a phenomenon&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;It&#8217;s an extraordin\u00adary result for an eight-year-old and something we&#8217;ve certainly never seen in this country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;She has a remarkably mature playing style, it&#8217;s strategic and patient. She has what you might describe as a long game.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bodhana was invited to Downing Street this summer, and was seen playing chess with Rishi Sunak, shortly before the government announced it was going to invest \u00a31 million to try and increase the number of English grandmasters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bodhana is currently the world\u2019s third-highest \u00adrated player born in 2015 in classical chess.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She previously told an Indian broadcaster that she began playing chess after rescuing a board that was going to be donated to charity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I got fascinated with the pieces and I started taking them. I kept asking questions so my dad then taught me [how to play] using YouTube,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She became England&#8217;s first world youth champion in 25 years, after she won titles in\u00a0classical, rapid and blitz competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in just a few days, on December 28, she will be competing at the International Chess Congress in Hastings, East Sussex.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12883691\/British-schoolgirl-wins-best-female-player-European-chess-championships-aged-just-EIGHT-beating-master-30-years-older-her.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British schoolgirl wins best female player at European chess championships aged just EIGHT by beating a master 30 years older than her Bodhana Sivanandan, from London, was crowned the best female player She a master chess player more than 30 years her senior She began playing chess when she was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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