"My favourite player is Capablanca" - Bodhana Sivanandan, Team England 

She's such a cutie full of confidence and talent. But I don't think she'll get to meet her idol Capablanca in the remaining few rounds.

Love little Bodhana ❤ She is so cute and talented. Thanks for this interview with her!

She is ace! Great interview!

I admire her courage in answering questions ❤ wishing her the very best

She's such an incredibly smart girl, I love everything she thinks and says. "I want to be world champion like Carlsen" "I want to be one of the greatest players of all time" How many other talented girls would have such ambitions. Besides, look how many people, after discovering her talent, said, "We have a new Judit Polgar". This amazing girl outsmarts them all. Why should she limit herself to being the best woman? She just wants to be the best, like Carlsen. She wants to be known for her achievements, not gender. She doesn't follow women's chess? Sure, who follows 2500 elo players (whether male or female) wanting to be a 2800 elo player? She already understands much more when others still don't. I hope she reaches the top and fulfills all her dreams.

Being an Indian, I will not take credit she is Indian blood. She represents her country she is proud of it.

Indians makes every country proud

That British accent!! ❤️

She is endrick of chess community

England should proud of this girl whayt a maturity and energy making her nation proud

Hopefully she gets to meet her idol Capablanca in the playing hall in the last 3 rounds

Cute kid, I like Capa too!

She sits on a booster seat, she can't really get up many times.

O wow thats my favorite!

What's wrong with her accent? She's so confident that scares me.

Omg what a sigma girl! She's just like "I don't follow women's chess, I don't need it to be world champion". She's just some little future GOAT standing here. I love that confidence and ambition! But it would be quite funny to come back to this video after some time when this girl will be a real GOAT and then she will say "I don't follow other players' games, it's they who need it to be as good as me".

she may be 9, but speaks like 40👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

She is awesome.but sounds too mature for her age

Very nice interview!🙂

If she wins she will be British, if she loose she'll be indian.

England don't deserve her.

"I want to be like world champion, like Carlsen" sad Ding somewhere in the background 😢

Britishers on twitter 👀 looking her representing england.

Hope brits won't go racist this time

She's 9 and her school finishes at 4, then school studies for a few hours... wut? When I was 9, school finished around noon and I played with my brother and neighbour for pretty much the rest of the day.

She is the endrick of chess 😂

That's the only correct answer. 2500 is a 2500. Male or female doesn't really matter.

Indian girl with British accent?

She seems indian

Indians everywhere 😂

If she wins credit taken cunning British and if she lose all the blame on whom guess???? Western mentality

Why are we talking to children for ?

great to see India has so much talent that Indian Tamils are representing England ... specially England where talent is lacking ... Jai Shree Ram, Jai Hind

Yas Queen!