LONDON, AUG 10 (PTI): Indian-origin chess prodigies 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan and 17-year-old Shreyas Royal made chess history over the weekend, winning the 2026 British Chess Championships. Bodhana became Britain’s youngest-ever Women’s chess champion at the games which concluded in Coventry on Sunday. In the faster formats of the game, Bodhana is already the UK Open Women’s Blitz Champion and joint British Women’s Rapid Champion. Royal, meanwhile, scooped the overall British title after he topped the table after nine rounds, finishing half a point ahead of England’s more seasoned grandmasters. As his first British title, the result establishes his status as an emerging world-class talent in chess.