The top 50 seeded players received byes. Hence, all eyes were on the current Women’s World Cup champion, Divya Deshmukh, who promised a lot but was defeated by Greek Grandmaster Stamatis ...
Divya Deshmukh is the new women's chess World Cup winner, after she beat Koneru Humpy in the tie-breaks in the final on Monday evening to win the crown. In the process, Divya also became India's 88th ...
Gukesh Dommaraju and Divya Deshmukh, Indian chess prodigies, faced off at the FIDE Grand Swiss in Uzbekistan. Their first classical format encounter ended in a draw after a 103-move battle.