Divya Deshmukh

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Divya Deshmukh
File:Divya Deshmukh at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024.jpg
Deshmukh in 2024
Country  India
Born (2005-12-09) 9 December 2005 (age 19)[1]
Nagpur, India
Title
Peak rating 2501 (October 2024)
Peak ranking 11 (October 2024)

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master.[2] She's 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 and education

Deshmukh was born in Nagpur in a Marathi family.[4] Her parents, Jitendra Deshmukh and Namratha Deshmukh, are doctors. She completed her Class 12 board examinations.[5]

Chess career

Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021.[4] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship.[6] 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.[7][8] As of August 2024, she is the 4th ranked woman chess player in India.[9]

In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship.[10] 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.[11]

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.[12] 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.[3] 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.[5]

In September 2024 she won the team gold as well as the individual gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024.[13]

References

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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
Padmini Rout
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