England is an historic chess nation that has been crying out for a star. But in 11-year-old WIM Bodhana Sivanandan, it has surely found one.
The 112th British Chess Championships began this week at the University of Warwick with the country's leading names in action. But all eyes are surely on Sivanandan.
Tuesday's action saw two big shocks: first, the evergreen GM Michael Adams, the reigning nine-time British champion and for so long the leading light of English chess, lost a classical game at the British.
Incredibly, it was the first time he's lost in classical at the British since 1988.
Having won in the first three rounds and the hot favourite to make it 10 career titles, the master of complicated positions was toppled by Ukraine's impressive 2488-rated youngster IM Svyatoslav Bazakutsa, who lives in Liverpool, in Round 4.
But it was what happened in Sivanandan's game that really set the cat amongst the pigeons.
The Harrow schoolgirl, fresh from a historic performance in France, obliterated 39-year-old GM Ameet Ghasi (2494 FIDE) to take her score to 3.5/4.
Sivanandan played with 99 per cent accuracy with the black pieces and left onlookers stunned.
GM Danny Gormally, commentating on the championships, said: "Bodhana, she's like a phenomenal player. I mean, the game she played today was just ridiculous.
"I keep saying about her that the way they're doing with her career is they're doing everything right. She does work hard on chess, but she's just got a lot of talent.
So, they're letting her talent shine and they're not putting too much pressure on her and everything's going well. You know, it's all very relaxed. Whereas you feel like with some juniors there's more pressure, and I think that's why they end up maybe not achieving as much as you expect because they put them under a lot of pressure.
"And the other thing that's impressive about Bodhana is her technical skills. So he's got that foundation that you got with Magnus Carlsen, and Michael Adams as well. Adams is great technically, and that's really given him a foundation to have a great career and a long career.
"And you see that as well with who's got that technical skill. If you haven't got that ability to win in the end game, then you know you're kind of going to end up being a bit one-dimensional. And maybe that's the weakness I've often had in my career as well. But Bodhana played great today against a great player in Ameet who didn't really do much wrong.
"But he just placed his bishop on c7 at the wrong moment. Other than that, he was doing everything right up to that moment. But once he made a mistake."
Sivanandan, England's highest-rated female player, is bidding to break the record for the youngest British Women's champion in history. To reiterate, she is just 11.
Two weeks ago, the silent assassin defeated Marc'Andria Maurizzi, the reigning French champion, before earning her first International Master norm. In doing so, she became the youngest girl ever to achieve the feat, surpassing Judit Polgar's record.