An impressive showing
In August 2023, the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that it would be funding chess in the UK with a total of £1 million over the next two years. In particular, the money will be used to promote chess among young people, especially in disadvantaged areas. However, top-level chess is also to receive additional funding in order to bring British top athletes back to the top of the world rankings.
There is plenty of talent in Great Britain, as Bodhana Sivanandan’s result at the recent Rapid and Blitz Championships in Zagreb proved. In the rapid tournament, she started as the 336th seed and finished 244th out of 437 participants with 5 points after 11 rounds.
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.Her performance in the blitz tournament was even more impressive. Bodhana Sivanandan was the 328th seed and, with 8 points after 13 rounds, out of the 555 participants she finished in 73rd place and was the best female participant in the tournament. Bodhana Sivanandan is only eight years old!
In the course of the tournament, Bodhana Sivanandan defeated the coach of the English women’s team, Lorin D’Costa, and finished with a draw against the Romanian grandmaster Vladislav Nevednichy.
With her result, she outscored the reigning junior world champion Marc’andria Maurizzi from France, who finished 85th, a half point behind.
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| 70 |
134 |
|
FM |
Milekic, Daniel |
|
SRB |
2231 |
8,5 |
0 |
89,5 |
95 |
7 |
8 |
| 71 |
137 |
|
IM |
Reprintsev, Alexander |
S65 |
UKR |
2229 |
8,5 |
0 |
89,5 |
95 |
6 |
8 |
| 72 |
181 |
|
IM |
Jusic, Zdenko |
|
CRO |
2169 |
8,5 |
0 |
87,5 |
92,5 |
7 |
8 |
| 73 |
328 |
|
WCM |
Sivanandan, Bodhana |
U12 |
ENG |
1944 |
8,5 |
0 |
86,5 |
95 |
6 |
8 |
| 74 |
112 |
|
|
Kahleys, Kevin |
|
GER |
2272 |
8,5 |
0 |
86,5 |
91,5 |
6 |
8 |
| 75 |
94 |
|
IM |
Alienkin, Aleksander |
|
BEL |
2316 |
8,5 |
0 |
86 |
92 |
6 |
7 |
| 76 |
45 |
|
IM |
Peyrer, Konstantin |
U20 |
AUT |
2470 |
8,5 |
0 |
86 |
91 |
7 |
8 |
| 77 |
279 |
|
|
Galuszka, Tomasz |
|
POL |
2008 |
8,5 |
0 |
86 |
90,5 |
6 |
8 |
| 78 |
84 |
|
FM |
Olenik Campa, Rudi |
U16 |
SLO |
2344 |
8,5 |
0 |
86 |
90,5 |
6 |
7 |
| 79 |
132 |
|
IM |
Levacic, Patrick |
|
CRO |
2234 |
8,5 |
0 |
85,5 |
91 |
7 |
7 |
| 80 |
312 |
|
CM |
Golubovic, Erik |
U12 |
CRO |
1969 |
8,5 |
0 |
85 |
89,5 |
7 |
8 |
| 81 |
83 |
|
IM |
Veiga, Jose Francisco R P Neves |
U20 |
POR |
2344 |
8 |
0 |
103 |
108,5 |
7 |
7 |
| 82 |
80 |
|
FM |
Papasimakopoulos, Alexandros |
|
GRE |
2351 |
8 |
0 |
102,5 |
108 |
6 |
7 |
| 83 |
31 |
|
IM |
Maksimovic, Bojan |
|
BIH |
2527 |
8 |
0 |
100,5 |
106 |
7 |
7 |
| 84 |
157 |
|
FM |
Lavrencic, Matic |
U16 |
SLO |
2190 |
8 |
0 |
99,5 |
105,5 |
6 |
6 |
| 85 |
59 |
|
GM |
Maurizzi, Marc`andria |
U16 |
FRA |
2417 |
8 |
0 |
99 |
105,5 |
7 |
7 |
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| 1.e4 | 1,197,867 | 54% | 2421 | --- |
| 1.d4 | 967,892 | 55% | 2433 | --- |
| 1.Nf3 | 289,601 | 56% | 2440 | --- |
| 1.c4 | 186,883 | 56% | 2443 | --- |
| 1.g3 | 19,992 | 56% | 2427 | --- |
| 1.b3 | 14,732 | 54% | 2428 | --- |
| 1.f4 | 6,008 | 48% | 2376 | --- |
| 1.Nc3 | 3,962 | 51% | 2383 | --- |
| 1.b4 | 1,800 | 48% | 2378 | --- |
| 1.a3 | 1,269 | 54% | 2406 | --- |
| 1.e3 | 1,096 | 49% | 2409 | --- |
| 1.d3 | 983 | 50% | 2380 | --- |
| 1.g4 | 674 | 46% | 2360 | --- |
| 1.h4 | 469 | 54% | 2381 | --- |
| 1.c3 | 446 | 52% | 2424 | --- |
| 1.h3 | 294 | 56% | 2418 | --- |
| 1.a4 | 120 | 60% | 2461 | --- |
| 1.f3 | 102 | 47% | 2429 | --- |
| 1.Nh3 | 93 | 66% | 2506 | --- |
| 1.Na3 | 48 | 61% | 2472 | --- |
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.c4 dxc4 6.Bxc4 e6 7.Ne2 Nd7 8.Nbc3 Nb6 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Ne7 11.Bg5 Qd7 12.0-0-0 Ned5 13.Ne4 Nb4 14.Qb3 Qd5 15.N2c3 Qxb3 16.axb3 N4d5 17.Rh3 Be7 18.Bxe7 Kxe7 19.Rg3 g6 20.Nd6 Rab8 21.Nce4 Nc8 22.Nc4 b5 23.Na5 Rb6 24.Kb1 Ra6 25.Nb7 Rb6 26.Nbc5 a5 27.Rf3 Rf8 28.Rg1 a4 29.bxa4 bxa4 30.Nxa4 Rb4 31.Nac5 Rxd4 32.Rc1 Ncb6 33.Ra3 Ra8 34.Rxa8 Nxa8 35.f3 Nac7 36.Nb3 Rb4 37.Na5 Kd7 38.Nxc6 Rb6 39.Nd4 Nb5 40.Nxb5 Rxb5 41.Ng5 Ke7 42.Rc8 Rb7 43.g3 Ne3 44.Rh8 Nf5 45.g4 hxg4 46.fxg4 Ne3 47.h5 gxh5 48.gxh5 Nc4 49.h6 Rxb2+ 50.Kc1 Rh2 51.h7 Nxe5 52.Ra8 Ng6 53.Ra7+ Kf6 54.Ne4+ Kg7 55.Ng5 Kf6 56.Ne4+ Kg7 57.Ng5 Kf6 58.Ne4+ Kg7 ½–½
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| Nevednichy,V | 2452 | Sivanandan,B | 1857 | ½–½ | 2023 | B12 | European Blitz-ch 2023 | 13.11 |
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Bodhana Sivanandan has already made headlines in England and is regarded as one of the country’s biggest talents. This summer, she, her parents and another great talent, 15-year-old Shreyas Royal, were invited by the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to his official residence at 10 Downing Street.
The pupil, who attends St John Fisher Primary School, Harrow, in north-west London, began to play chess by chance three years ago after she discovered a chess set in a friend’s bag and became interested in the game. It was the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Chess turned out to be a welcome distraction during the lockdown.
By March 2022, Bodhana Sivanandan was so good that she won the silver medal in the U8 girls’ group at the European Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships. At the school championships in Rhodes in May 2022, she won all the games in her age group and three gold medals. In August 2022, Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest ever participant to play in a tournament at the British National Championships in Torquay.
The Jobava London System is a minor form of the London System. White tries to play Lf4 quickly followed by Nc3.
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