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Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh
Deshmukh in 2024
Country India
Born (2005-12-09) 9 December 2005 (age 19)[1]
Nagpur, India
Title
FIDE rating2490 (January 2025)
Peak rating2501 (October 2024)
Medal record
Women's chess
Representing  India
Olympiad
Gold medal – first place 2020 Online Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Budapest Women's team
Gold medal – first place 2024 Budapest Women's individual board 3
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Chennai Women's individual board 5
Asian Championship
Gold medal – first place 2023 Almaty Women's individual
World Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place 2024 Gandhinagar Girls' individual
World Youth Championship
Gold medal – first place 2014 Durban Girls' individual
Gold medal – first place 2017 Poços de Caldas Girls' individual
Representing Hungary Ajka
European Club Cup
Silver medal – second place 2024 Vrnjačka Banja Women's team

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master.[2] She is a three-time gold medalist at the Olympiad. Deshmukh has also won multiple golds at the Asian Championship, the World Junior Championship as well as the World Youth Championship.[3]

Early life

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Deshmukh was born in Nagpur in a Marathi family.[4] Her parents, Jitendra Deshmukh and Namratha Deshmukh, are doctors.[5] She received her early education from Bhavans Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir.[6]

Career

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Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021.[4] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship.[7] She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team.[8][9] As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in India.[10]

In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship.[11] She then finished first in the women's rapid section of the Tata Steel India Chess Tournament, despite being the bottom seed. At the tournament, she defeated Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agrawal, Koneru Humpy, Savitha Shri B, Irina Krush, and Nino Batsiashvili, drew against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and Anna Ushenina, and suffered her only loss to Polina Shuvalova.[12]

In May 2024, Deshmukh was the Sharjah Challengers champion, a large open tournament win that earned her a spot in the Sharjah Masters the following year.[13] In June, she became 2024 FIDE World U20 Girls Chess Champion. She became the fourth Indian to win the World Junior Girls' title after Koneru Humpy in 2001, Harika Dronavalli in 2008, and Soumya Swaminathan in 2009.[3] Needing a win in the final round, she defeated Bulgaria’s third seed Beloslava Krasteva in a five-hour marathon battle to secure 10 points out of a possible 11 and won the gold.[5]

In September 2024, she won the team gold as well as the individual gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Divya Deshmukh FIDE profile". Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  2. ^ Ahmed, Shahid (19 October 2021). "Divya Deshmukh becomes the 22nd Woman Grandmaster of India". Chessbase India. Retrieved 27 February 2022. Divya Deshmukh scored her final WGM-norm in her first tournament in over 17 months at First Saturday GM October 2021.
  3. ^ a b Raghavan, R. Srinivasa (20 June 2024). "Divya Deshmukh, India's new chess star, looks set to checkmate the world". thefederal.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Meet Divya Deshmukh: All You Need To Know About Indian Chess Player Who Faced Sexism From Fans - In Pics". Zee News. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Nagpur's queen India's pride: Divya Deshmukh is world junior chess champion". The Times of India. 14 June 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  6. ^ Shekhawat, Meemansa. "Meet Divya Deshmukh, grandmaster who helped India clinch gold medal at Budapest Chess Olympiad at age of..." DNA India. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  7. ^ Navalgund, Niranjan (5 March 2022). "Arjun Erigaisi, Divya Deshmukh Clinch Indian National Championships". chess.com. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  8. ^ "India – FIDE Online Olympiad 2020". FIDE Online Olympiad 2020 / 24 July - August 30. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Who is Divya Deshmukh? Nagpur chess prodigy bags World U-20 Chess Championship title - CNBC TV18". CNBCTV18. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  10. ^ "FIDE Ratings". Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  11. ^ Asian Continental Women Chess Championship 2023
  12. ^ TATA STEEL CHESS INDIA RAPID 2023 (WOMEN)
  13. ^ Ahmed, Shahid (23 May 2024). "Divya Deshmukh wins Sharjah Challengers 2024". ChessBase India. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  14. ^ Burtasova, Anna (22 September 2024). "India triumphs at 45th Chess Olympiad, winning both Open and Women's competitions". www.fide.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Women's Asian Chess Champion
2023–present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Indian Women's Chess Champion
2022 		Succeeded by