Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM)[4] from Maharashtra.[2][5] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. 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.[6] As of September 2023, she is the 7th ranked woman chess player in India.[7]

Divya Deshmukh
Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh.jpg
CountryIndia
Born (2005-12-09) 9 December 2005[1]
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India[2]
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2021)
FIDE rating2408 (October 2023)
Peak rating2431 (April 2019)[3]

In 2023, in Almaty she won Asian Women's Chess Championship.[8] and later she finished first in Tata Steel India Chess Tournament.[9]

References
  1. "Divya Deshmukh". Twitter. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. Sampat, Amit (2 March 2022). "Divya topples top seed Vaishali, set to become senior national chess champion". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  3. "Divya Deshmukh FIDE profile". Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  4. 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.
  5. Navalgund, Niranjan (5 March 2022). "Arjun Erigaisi, Divya Deshmukh Clinch Indian National Championships". chess.com. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  6. "India – FIDE Online Olympiad 2020". FIDE Online Olympiad 2020 / 24 July - August 30. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  7. "FIDE Ratings". Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  8. Asian Continental Women Chess Championship 2023
  9. TATA STEEL CHESS INDIA RAPID 2023 (WOMEN)
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