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Divya Deshmukh

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Indian chess player

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Maharashtra

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Key facts

Born
( 2005-12-09 ) 9 December 2005 (age 20) , Nagpur , Maharashtra, India
Country
India
Title
Grandmaster (2025)
Fide rating
2500 (June 2026)
Peak rating
2510 (April 2026)

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Encyclopedic overview

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup 2025 and qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. She has also won golds at the Asian Championship, the World Junior Championship and the World Youth Championship. She won the women's edition of National Premier Chess Championship in both 2021 and 2022 consecutively.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Divya Deshmukh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.