Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, who made chess history last Saturday when winning the women’s prize in the European blitz championship at Zagreb, will be back at the board next week. She will compete in the Caplin Masters at Hastings, the chess world’s longest running congress, which is now in its 97th edition and starts on 28 December.
At Zagreb, the year four Harrow primary school pupil totalled a remarkable 8.5/13 in a field of 555 players, including 48 GMs and 50 IMs. Her tournament performance was rated at 2316, the level of a woman grandmaster. She is set to be ranked England’s No 3 woman at blitz when Fide issues its January rating list.
