India, Aug. 15 -- Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old chess player from Harrow, has become the youngest girl to beat a grandmaster. On Sunday, she defeated 60-year-old GM Peter Wells in the last round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool.

At 10 years, five months, and three days old, she broke the record set in 2019 by American Carissa Yip, who was 10 years, 11 months, and 20 days when she scored her first grandmaster win.

"How on earth did she win this? She must be some kind of magician," GM Danny Gormally said while commentating for the English Chess Federation broadcast. She also earned praise from chess legend Susan Polgar.

Polgar wrote on X, "Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest girl to defeat a GM at just 10 years...