17-year-old Grandmaster Shreyas Royal wins his first British Championship, while schoolgirl Sivanandan becomes the youngest British Women’s champ ever. Records tumbled at the biggest-ever British Chess Championships as the nine-day event at the University of Warwick, Coventry, ended with two record-breaking young superstars of the game winning the two top prizes. Seventeen-year-old Shreyas Royal scooped the overall British title. He topped the table after nine rounds, finishing half a point ahead of two of England’s more seasoned grandmasters, Luke McShane and nine-time champ Michael Adams. It was Royal’s first British title and the result underlined his status as an emerging world-class talent. Meanwhile, England’s 11-year-old prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan, another superstar-in-the-making, b