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‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’

London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British champion

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‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’

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London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British champion

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