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Divya Deshmukh

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Divya Deshmukh
Deshmukh in 2024
Country India
Born (2005-12-09) 9 December 2005 (age 18)[1]
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Title
FIDE rating2483 (September 2024)
Peak rating2500.5 (September 2024)[2]
Ranking11 (September 2024)
Peak ranking11 (September 2024)
Medal record
Representing  India
Women's chess
Olympiad
Gold medal – first place 2024 Budapest Women's individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Budapest Women's team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Chennai Women's individual
Online Olympiad
Gold medal – first place 2020 Online Women's team
Asian Championship
Gold medal – first place 2023 Almaty Women's individual
World Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place 2024 Gandhinagar Girl's individual
World Youth Championship
Gold medal – first place 2017 Poços de Caldas Girls' individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Durban Girls' individual

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master.[3] She's a multiple gold medalist at the Olympiad, has won the Online Olympiad as well as the Asian Championship.[4]

At the junior level, she's the winner of the World Junior Championship and the World Youth Championship.

Early life and education

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Divya was born in Nagpur, Maharashtra.[5] Her parents, Jitendra Deshmukh and Namratha Deshmukh, are doctors. She completed her Class 12 board examinations.[6]

Chess career

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Divya became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021.[5] 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 August 2024, she is the 4th 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, Dronavalli Harika in 2008, Soumya Swaminathan in 2009.[4] Needing a win in the final round, she defeated Bulgaria’s third seed Krasteva Beloslava in a five-hour marathon battle to secure 10 points out of a possible 11 and won the championship.[6]

She was a member of gold medal winning India Women team at Chess Olympiad 2024. With a score of 9.5/11, she also won an individual gold on the third board. She crossed Elo 2500 in the event and moved up to 2nd rank in India.

References

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  1. ^ "Divya Deshmukh". Twitter. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Divya Deshmukh FIDE profile". Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  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. "Divya Deshmukh wins Sharjah Challengers 2024". ChessBase India. Retrieved 23 June 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
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