Two ten-year-old girls have recently conquered one of the world’s oldest board games, taking down two grandmasters in chess, men considered to be the kings of the sport.

It all started at the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, England earlier this month. London’s Bodhana Sivanandan (10 years, 5 months, 3 days) beat 60-year old grandmaster Pete Wells to become the youngest female ever to defeat a chess grandmaster.

“She’s on course to be one of the best British players ever,” Malcolm Pein, manager of the England chess team, said in an earlier article from the BBC .

Bodhana, who started playing chess during the COVID pandemic, previously won three world championships in the under 8 age group. Now, she has a new milestone.

But Bodhana is not the only female chess player maki

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