Indian Chess Player Divya Deshmukh (Fide/Andrei Anosov) Divya Deshmukh entered the prestigious World Cup Fide 2025 with modest expectations and hoped to ensure the standard of the Grand Master to help her future aspirations of GM.19 -year -old from Nagpur, however, achieved three remarkable successes in about three weeks: qualification for candidates tournament, gaining the title of the World Cup and automatically earned the title Grandmaster.Becoming a Grand Master usually requires earning three GM standards in FIDE approved tournaments and achieving the evaluation of 2500. However, Fortune preferred a talented player from Nagpur.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!FIDE regulations allow the winners of selected elite competitions to circumvent traditional requirements for standard and evaluation and directly achieve GM. The Women’s World Cup is one of such events where the winner automatically becomes a grandmaster.“I need time to process it (victory). I think it was fate, as I got the title of Grand Master in this way, because I had no norm (coming to the event) and everything I thought was” Oh when I can get my norm. “Deshmukh’s mother, a doctor, was present to witness her daughter’s historical success.The young champion became emotional after defeating Humpy Konera, double world champion in a quick champion, and shared with her mother a tear hug.“It’s hard for me right now. It certainly means a lot, but of course there is much more. I hope it’s just the beginning,” she added.The success of Dehmukh makes her the fourth Indian woman to achieve the status of the Grandmaster, after Humpym, Dronavalli Harice and R Vaisali.
