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Desi chess star Bodhana Sivanandan, 9, youngest ever to play for England

LONDON: Bodhana Sivanandan, a nine-year-old British Tamil chess prodigy, has made history by becoming the youngest sports star ever to represent England in an international sport.

The Times of India

Chess star, 9, makes history as she is selected to represent England

The youngster became a sensation after she started to play during lockdown

Evening Standard

Nine-year-old chess prodigy to make history after being picked for England

Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, will take on adults on the world stage after being picked to play for at the world Chess Olympiad

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Faustino Oro, aged 10 and known as ‘the Messi of chess’, advances again

Argentinian prodigy already has two international master norms and looks set to break more records while England’s pre-teen talents are also making eye-catching progress

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Chess: Magnus Carlsen calls Ding Liren ‘broken’ as teenage star Gukesh emerges

The former world champion fears for the current holder, who is out of form before title defence against 17-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju

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Fast-rising Lu and Lee, both 14, could provide Fischer v Spassky-style rivalry

Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee defeated the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis

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Chess: Danny Gormally holds off junior challengers to win British Rapidplay

The top seed fought back from a fifth-round blunder and won the title after a playoff with Ireland’s No 1 woman, Trisha Kanyamarala

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Chess: Adams wins seventh straight first prize as England’s girls set records

The eight-time British champion, 52, has played 63 games without defeat, while Ruqayya Rida, 12, scored against two GMs and Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, is the new world No 1 under-nine

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Bodhana Sivanandan dazzles at European Women’s Blitz Championship

The English prodigy, eight, totalled 8.5/13 and finished 15th in a field of 105 as well as winning the prize for best junior

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, sets new records with victory in Zagreb

The Harrow schoolgirl, who won the women’s prize in the European open blitz championship, plays at Hastings next week in the chess world’s longest running congress

The Guardian - UK

London schoolgirl wins best female player at European chess championship

The little girl beat an experienced master more than 30 years her senior

Evening Standard

British girl, 8, crowned best female player at European chess tournament

Bodhana Sivanandan, who got into chess ‘accidentally’ three years ago, described as a ‘phenomenon’

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Michael Adams still leads with two rounds left in London Classic

The eight-time British champion was close to defeat in round six, but stayed half a point ahead of his Indian and Iranian rivals going into the final two rounds

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Nakamura and Firouzja at risk as Fide Grand Swiss opens on Isle of Man

The world Nos 3 and 4 are battling for two Candidates places in the $460,000, 114-player event, but both started slowly while rivals who prepared with non-stop blitz began with wins

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Chess: Hikaru Nakamura snatches final round victory from Fabiano Caruana

The streamer with more than a million followers caught the US champion, who had led all the way

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Chess: Carlsen loses to a Pole in Poland with Polish Defence before winning run

The world No 1 chose 1 d4 b5 as Black against Radoslaw Wojtaszek and was in trouble by move nine before resigning at move 38, but later won seven games in a row to take first prize in Warsaw

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Chess: Ding misses wins and his prep leaks as Nepomniachtchi keeps the lead

China’s world No 3 had a dominant position in game eight but missed several good chances before he drew in 45 moves with the Russian, who leads 5-4 with five games left

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Chess: seven-year-old breaks record to share English women’s blitz title

A Harrow schoolgirl lowers the age record for a national women’s champion by more than four years after sharing the crown

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The Guardian - UK

Chess: Bodhana Sivanandan, seven, shines at British Championships

Keith Arkell and Harry Grieve lead after six of nine rounds, while Harrow schoolgirl scores remarkably well in Open Rapid

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Rachel Reeves hopes chess festival can be opening gambit for children’s futures

Ahead of ChessFest, shadow chancellor and a seven-year-old enthusiast say the game teaches them to plot and plan

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Chess: England children sweep gold medals and world titles in Rhodes

Talented generation with skills honed by online games capture seven golds, one silver and six bronzes in Euro Schools, World Rapid and World Blitz youth championships

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