{"id":280997,"date":"2025-11-24T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:56:08","slug":"bodhana-sivanandan-ten-year-old-chess-prodigy-dazzles-at-womens-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280997\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodhana Sivanandan: Ten-year-old chess prodigy dazzles at women\u2019s event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to say what is more remarkable &#8211; the fact that a 10-year-old is a top seed in a British chess championship, or that she strolls to victory by a huge margin, leaving three other England internationals in her wake,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bodhana, from Harrow in north-west London, said she was &#8220;really happy&#8221; about her victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chess helps me with so many other things, at school it helps with maths, art and music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her father, Siva, said his daughter was very determined, and he and his wife were proud of her: &#8220;She is doing her best, and we are supporting her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the latest success in Bodhana&#8217;s phenomenal career. In August, she became the youngest person to earn the Woman International Master title &#8211; the second-highest ranking in chess, below grandmaster.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to say what is more remarkable &#8211; the fact that a 10-year-old is a top seed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-280997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}