Three players with Basingstoke connections played in the British Chess Championship. (Image: Ray Morris Hill) A play-off was called, and unfortunately, Peter was edged out by Grandmaster Stuart ...

What began as a casual family gift has turned into a meteoric chess career marked by international victories and broken ...

Bodhana Sivanandan won against Peter Wells, a 60-year-old grandmaster, in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool on Aug. 10, according to a post shared on X by the ...

Michael Adams, the king of British chess, won his ninth national title today in a sensational three-way playoff finish to the 111th British Chess Championships in Liverpool.

Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest female chess player to defeat a Grandmaster after taking down Peter Wells earlier this month. Sivanandan, 10, broke the record previously set by Carissa Yip in ...

Bodhana Sivanandan is now considered an international master of the game after defeating 60-year-old grandmaster Peter Wells.

The 53-year-old from Cornwall, nicknamed “The Spider”, showed all his class to win the rapidplay tiebreaker ahead of ...

But the Yorkshireman faces stiff competition from veteran eight-time champion, legend of world chess and newly crowned English Chess Championship winner Michael Adams, and also current British ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, of Indian origin, aged 10, has become the youngest chess player from the UK to defeat a grandmaster.

A 10-year-old chess prodigy from the London area has become the youngest female player to defeat a grandmaster, which is the ...

A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster.