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THE FIRST-EVER 11-YEAR-OLD WGM!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming the first 11-year-old in chess history to earn the WGM title! 🏴
She just made her final WGM norm at the Olympiad! Only Hou Yifan & Kateryna Lagno were even WGMs at 12! 🤯
📷: R Oleksiewicz
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Now we can celebrate 🥳
Bodhana Sivanandan has just earned her 3rd WGM norm — at 11 years old
Subject to confirmation, she is the youngest Woman Grandmaster in chess history, breaking Kateryna Lagno’s long-standing record.
🇬🇧 11 years old.
🏆 A world record.
#Chess #BodhanaSivanandan #WGM #TeamEngland
What’s happening ……. not a lot, had a pacemaker fitted last week, dual chamber, with left bundle branch pacing.
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Amazing! 🥳 – at Farnham, England
Congratulations to 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan on earning the FM title after crossing 2300 across the Graz Open (+102) and now the first 4 rounds of the Cannes Open (+51.2)! 🤯 chess.com/events/2026-cannes…
For the love of the game! Just took a ChessPersonality quiz and I’m a romantic 💘 Discover yours at: chesspersonality.com/romanti…
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Pay attention to this: the woman on the left is Liberata Ríos, from Argentina. Two weeks ago, she turned 101 years old.
Liberata learned to play chess at the age of 85.
In 2019, she won her first regional title in the seniors category, at age 93. In 2020, during the pandemic, she learned to play online.
Thanks to Marco, from the ‘Pawn in the 7th Rank’ chess school (that’s where Liberata learned the game), for their great work promoting chess and for sharing this story with us.
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English junior Bodhana Sivanandan played a game against Magnus Carlsen while visiting London for the Speed Chess Championship Finals.
A memorable moment for a rising English talent against a legendary opponent. ♟️ #CHESS
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Must stop waving my hands around so much 😅 But loved chatting to this legend in the making!
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Dear @Pilar_Alegria,
In 3 days Anna Shukhman will play for the "neutral" team in the Womens World Chess Championship in Linares 🇪🇦
Today she appears in her Russian 🇷🇺 Chess Federation uniform on their social media.
They are laughing at us in Moscow:
ruchess.ru/news/report/evgen…
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I'm so happy for Igor - if somebody deserved it, it's definitely him and the entire Ukrainian team. Bravo!!
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"The absolute finest performance I've ever seen from a team. This European Team’s performance is equivalent to what Tiger Woods did at the 2000 U.S. Open...what we saw yesterday & today is unprecedented." - @chambleebrandel on @GolfCentral Live From the Ryder Cup on @GolfChannel
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About to stream for the first time ever on my brand new personal Twitch account! 😊 Go search for 'HowellHub' to chat and chill. Save me from having zero viewers 😅 I'll be attempting to remember how the pieces move during Freestyle Friday ♟️😎
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These last couple of weeks I've been working on my forthcoming @chessable Stonewall course.
I am just wondering if anyone would mind if I make 9...Rg8N or 9...g5N my main suggestion in this critical line!? 😬🫣🫠 – at Godalming, England
