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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Leonard Barden

Chess: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, breaks another world age record at Dole Trophy

Bodhana Sivanandan beat Judit Polgar’s record for achieving a first international master result by almost five months
Bodhana Sivanandan beat Judit Polgar’s record for achieving a first international master result by almost five months. Photograph: Micha Walusza/Walusza Fotografia/Fide

England’s 11-year-old talent Bodhana Sivanandan fought her way to another world age record last Saturday. Sivanandan ended the Dole Trophy in Aix-en-Provence, France, with a historic first international master result.

Judit Polgar, the all-time No 1 woman, achieved her first IM norm in April 1988 in the International B section of the New York Open at 11 years and nine months. Sivanandan had a harder route to beating Polgar’s age record by almost five months.

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