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British chess prodigy becomes youngest woman grandmaster
A British child chess prodigy has become the youngest player in history to earn the woman grandmaster (WGM) title.Bodhana Sivanandan, 11
Summary
A British child chess prodigy has become the youngest player in history to earn the woman grandmaster (WGM) title. Hou Yifan, from China, also achieved the title at 12 and remains the youngest woman to have earned the higher, open grandmaster (GM) title, which she achieved aged 14. Sivanandan now has two IM norms.
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People
- Hou Yifan2
- Bodhana Sivanandan
- Kateryna Lagno
- Sivanandan
- Lagno
- Siva
Organisations
- International Chess Federation2
- English Chess Federation
- Fide
- BBC
Places
- United Kingdom2
- Uzbekistan2
- Samarkand2
- Harrow2
- London2
- China2
- Budapest.The
- Croatia
Keywords
- grandmaster2
- youngest2
- becomes2
- british2
- woman2
- wgm2
- schoolgirl
- prodigy
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