Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh
Deshmukh in 2024
Country India
Born (2005-12-09) 9 December 2005 (age 18)[1]
Nagpur, India
Title
FIDE rating2493 (November 2024)
Peak rating2501 (October 2024)
Peak ranking11 (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]

  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. ^ 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.