Eleven-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan from north-west London has become the youngest player ever to earn the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title after securing her third and final WGM norm while playing on England’s top board at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand. She finished the event on eight points from 11 games and had already crossed the 2300 rating threshold required for the title. The WGM is the highest women-only title and is held for life; previous age records were held by Kateryna Lagno and Hou Yifan, who achieved women-only titles at 12. Sivanandan also picked up a second International Master (IM) norm at the Olympiad, moving closer to the higher, open IM title that requires three norms and a 2400 rating.
Her rise has been rapid since learning chess during the Covid lockdown: she entered her first tournament in July 2021, won all 24 games at the European Schools Championship at seven, and at nine became the youngest person ever to represent England internationally. She has repeatedly beaten and held her own against grandmasters - at 10 she defeated Peter Wells and, this year, beat Marc’Andria Maurizzi (rated above 2600) while earning her first IM norm in France. She remains a full-time school pupil, says she wants to keep making history, and comes from a family with no apparent chess pedigree.
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