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Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. [2] She is 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]
India scored a convincing 3½–½ victory over Azerbaijan with wins by Harika Dronavalli, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agrawal to win the gold medal, whereas Kazakhstan drew with the United States in a match with one win per side. The Kazakh team had chances to win the match as Alua Nurman won a pawn after Alice Lee missed a tactic.
Twenty individuals have been awarded the Arjuna Award for exceptional performance in chess at the international level. Manuel Aaron was the first chess player to receive this award in its inception year of 1961. [12] Rohini Khadilkar was the second chess player and first female chess player to receive this award in 1980–81. In total, seven ...
The 18-year-old Indian expressed her frustration at comments focussed on her appearance rather than her chess success
The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to 23 September 2024.It consisted of two main tournaments—an Open event, enabling participation of players from all genders, and a Women's event, enabling participation of female players only—as well as several events to promote chess.
Georgia dominated the second Indian team by 3–1 with two wins on the lower boards where Lela Javakhishvili outplayed Soumya Swaminathan and Meri Arabidze defeated Divya Deshmukh. On the other boards, Vantika Agarwal fought hard to save the game against Nana Dzagnidze, while Padmini Rout made a draw with Nino Batsiashvili.
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1980s Country Player Peak rating in 1980s Achieved 1 Garry Kasparov: 2775 1989-01 2 Anatoly Karpov: 2755 1989-07 3 Mikhail Tal: 2705 1980-01 4 Viktor Korchnoi: 2695 1980-01 5 Jan Timman: 2675 1988-01 6 Nigel Short: 2665 1988-07 7 Artur Yusupov: 2660 1986-07 Vasyl Ivanchuk: 2660 1989-07 9 Lajos ...
The Women's Chess World Cup 2023 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the second edition of the Women's Chess World Cup, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 July to 22 August 2023. [1] The runner up and third place finishers, Nurgyul Salimova and Anna Muzychuk, qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [2]