Overview

• On October 19 in Rhodes, Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, beat former Women’s World Champion GM Mariya Muzychuk at the European Chess Club Cup.
• Muzychuk, rated 2485, was about 280 FIDE points higher than Sivanandan’s 2205 and is more than two decades older.
• Sivanandan’s board victory did not swing the match as She Plays to Win Lionesses lost 3–1 to Turkish Airlines in the women’s section.
• Earlier this year in Liverpool, she defeated GM Peter Wells at the British Chess Championships, becoming the youngest female to beat a grandmaster.
• Leading figures Danny Gormally, David Howell and Susan Polgar praised the result, calling it an impressive and rare achievement for a 10-year-old.