Bodhana Sivanandan: British chess prodigy named best female player at European championship

An eight-year-old primary school pupil from Harrow has been named best female player at the European Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia.

Bodhana Sivanandan achieved an “astonishing result and outranked several grandmasters – as Sky’s Emma Birchley reports.

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