The championship adds another major achievement to Royal’s rapid rise through British chess. Shreyas Royal became the UK’s youngest-ever grandmaster in 2024 and his journey to the top of British chess has also been shaped by his family’s immigration experience. Eight years later, Royal has become British champion and established himself as one of England’s leading young chess players. Despite winning the British Championship, Shreyas Royal will not be part of England’s five-player squad for next month’s World Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For Royal, however, his British Championship victory marks another significant milestone in a career that has already broken several age records.