11-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Woman Chess Grandmaster

Bodhana Sivanandan achieved the remarkable feat while playing on a car booster seat to reach the chess board. The London schoolgirl's father taught her chess when she was five, and just three years later, she defeated former British champion.

Despite her international chess success, Bodhana returned to school in north London for a design and technology lesson on Tuesday. She now balances the pressures of being an international chess sensation with ordinary childhood challenges and her first term at secondary school. sportnewz.click