Hungarian-American chess grandmaster and former Women's World Chess champion (1996-1999), Susan Polgar, credited Divya Deshmukh’s remarkable World Cup triumph to her relentless will to win and ...

For years, women's chess has been ruled by Chinese and Russian players. But with Humpy’s World Rapid title, India’s historic gold in the Olympiad and now Divya’s breakthrough, the balance of ...

Divya Deshmukh made history on Monday by winning the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 and becoming India’s 88th Grandmaster. She ...