♟️ Chess Grandmaster 🏆 3-time British Champion 🥇 Olympic gold medallist ✍🏻 Columnist for The Times 🎙️ Commentator 📺 Presenter of BBC2's Chess Masters
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Another milestone ✅ 🏴
Congratulations to 11-year-old IM Bodhana Sivanandan on scoring her final IM norm to become the 7th youngest IM in chess history — and the youngest female IM ever! chess.com/events/2026-europe…
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British chess prodigy, 11, becomes youngest woman grandmaster bbc.in/4hR8E1O
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An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th Chess Olympiad. cnn.it/4hQZouF
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The youngest ever Woman Grandmaster! Go Bodhana, go England! 🌟 🏴
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How chess should be supported 👏
Each player of the gold medal Uzbekistan team gets US$200,000 from the Government of the country. The coach of the team gets US$50,000.
What is impressive is that the Government has chalked out the details for everything from winning the Olympiads to World Championships, Asian Championships and even getting GM title.
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Many congratulations to Uzbekistan and China on their Olympiad gold medals!! 🥇 🏆 Inspirational team spirit and, of course, incredible chess. Been fun watching/commentating on the event, despite the FOMO! ☺️🥹♟️
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What a trap 🤯 Huge for the Olympiad standings!
A shocker: Nihal Sarin blunders his queen, and if he loses it's a win for Uzbekistan! If 38...Rxe6 39.gxh4 wins the queen with a discovery.
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#ChessOlympiad
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Chess treats lined up for Round 6 of the Chess Olympiad!♟️🔥In the Open section, it’s Uzbekistan vs India 🇺🇿🆚🇮🇳 and China vs Germany 🇨🇳🆚🇩🇪. For the Women’s section, we have Poland vs China 🇵🇱🆚🇨🇳 and Azerbaijan vs Kazakhstan 🇦🇿🆚🇰🇿 on the menu! 🍽️
✨Ready for action with @TaniaSachdev and @DavidHowellGM! 🎙️ We’re going live soon on @chess24com's YouTube and Twitch! 📺👋 Join us!
#ChessConnectsUs #ChessOlympiad #commentary
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Join the Take Take Take @lichess Arena tonight at 21:00 CEST.
Play in the Arena and post your brilliant (!!) moves afterwards for a chance to win $300!
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You can’t spell Pragg without GG! Congrats 👏 🏆
From Chess Prodigy to Grand Chess Tour Champion!
Photos by Lennart Ootes/ Grand Chess Tour
#Grandchesstour #Praggnanandhaa #vishyanand #gctfinals
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Many congratulations to Shreyas and Bodhana! 🏆🏆 The future of English chess is bright ☀️
🏆 The 2026 British Chess Championships are complete!
♔ British Champion: Shreyas Royal
♕ British Women's Champion: Bodhana Sivanandan, who claimed the title after a dramatic rapid play-off against Trisha Kanyamarala.
Congratulations to all of this year's champions ! ❤️♟️
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Best of luck to England at the Olympiad this year! 🏴🔥🏆
🏴♟ Introducing Team England for the FIDE Chess Olympiad!
England (Women): Bodhana Sivanandan, Lan Yao, Jovanka Houska, Harriet Hunt, and Elmira Mirzoeva
Captain: Stuart Conquest
England (Open): Nikita Vitiugov, Michael Adams, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, and Daniel Fernandez
Captain: William Watson
♟ FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026
📍 Samarkand 🇺🇿
🗓 Game days: September 16-27
#ChessOlympiad
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Heartbreaking 💔 “Once” is one of my favourite films, and his songs were incredible. So grateful I got to see him perform. Thank you for the music 🕊️
Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who starred in the 2007 film “Once” and won the best song Oscar for “Falling Slowly,” died on Wednesday in a motorcycle crash. He was 56.
According to the BBC, Hansard was killed in a single-vehicle crash in his home city of Dublin. variety.com/2026/music/globa…
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