JAKARTA 19-year-old chess player from India, Divya Deshmukh, managed to record his name in his history book as the 2025 FIDE Women's Chess World Cup champion.
This achievement was achieved after he defeated his compatriot, Grandma Humpy Koneru, with a score of 1.5-0.5 in the tiebreak round in Batumi, Georgia, on Monday, July 28, 2025, WIB night.
In two fasttiebreak games 15+10, Divya showed extraordinary toughness and calm. After losing a golden opportunity in the first game to end in the draw, he brought elite precision to the second game.
There, he managed to equalize comfortably despite holding a black piece. Divya then took control when Humpy was under pressure of time and finally won the title convincingly.
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This extraordinary victory makes Divya Deshmukh now not only the 2025 Women's World Cup Champion, but also one of the brightest young stars in the chess world.
"It's hard for me to talk now. Of course this means a lot, but there's still a lot to be achieved. So, I hope this is just the beginning," he said.
Divya is the third FIDE Women's Chess World Cup champion in history. She is now following in the footsteps of GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (2021) and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (2023).
In addition to bringing home the prestigious title from this event, the achievements above at the same time brought Divya Deshmukh to officially hold the grandmaster title, the highest position in chess.
She is the fourth female chess player from India to receive the title. In addition, Divya is now the 88th Indian chess player to win themmamaster title.
Divya became one of the few chess players in history to win ammamaster title by winning a big FIDE event and not through three GM norms and 2500 rating as usual.
"I think it's fate, I got the grandmaster title in this way because before I didn't even have a single norm and now I've become a master," he said.
Victory at the 2025 Women's Chess World Cup also brought Divya to qualify for the 2026 Candidate Tournament, along with the second and third place winners GM Humpy Koneru and former World Women's Champion, Tan Zhongyi.
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