FIDE Womens World Cup: Divya Deshmukh is the primary Indian girl champion, turns into Grandmaster

Divya Deshmukh is the World Cup winner. She can be India’s newest Grandmaster, solely the fourth Indian girl to get that the majority coveted of titles in chess.

The 19-year-old from Nagpur recorded the best second of her younger profession when she beat fellow-Indian Koneru Humpy within the tiebreakers of the World Cup last at Batumi, Georgia, on Monday (July 28, 2025). Both video games within the classical format had been drawn, resulting in the shootout in velocity chess.

After the opening sport was drawn within the tiebreaker, Divya gained the second with black items, punishing her much-higher rated rival for just a few inaccurate strikes. While Humpy, the reigning World fast chess champion, is ranked World No. 5, Divya is seeded solely 18th.

This is a surprising efficiency from {the teenager} who has been establishing herself as one of many world’s finest younger gamers in girls’s chess. Last yr, she had gained the World junior championship in Ahmedabad dominating the sphere, fairly expectedly.

Then she performed a key function in India’s historic gold within the Chess Olympiad at Budapest. But, India was the highest seed there.

At the World Cup, the Indian girls exceeded expectations, with 4 of them making it to the quarterfinals.