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 federation, known as FIDE, the governing body of chess.

Sivanandan, 10, broke the record previously set by Carissa Yip in 2014. While Yip was also just 10 years old when she defeated Alexander Ivanov at the New England Open. However, according to the International Chess Federation, Sivanandan was six months and 17 days younger than Yip was at the time.