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Chess may be one of the ultimate solo sports, but when played as a team game, everything changes. The loneliness is replaced by camaraderie, the pressure is shared, and every move is made with a common goal in mind. At the 2025 World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships, Team MGD1 demonstrated how a team setup…
Viswanathan Anand hardly has space to play a game of chess inside his house. Art has taken over a bulk of the space at his luxurious residence in Chennai’s Kotturpuram. If a painting of lord Hayagriva is located next to a fancy chess board that was gifted to him abroad, a sketch of a tiger…
Divya Deshmukh couldn’t quite believe it. That this was happening with the whole world watching. A World Cup on the line, her opponent, the much-experienced Koneru Humpy, was moments away from defeat. And Divya, 19 and trembling, was suddenly on the cusp of history. She had her hands on her face. Not in triumph, not…
Indian chess has never had it this good, showcasing its growing prowess with consistency and signalling that the best may still lie ahead. After five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand’s glorious years, Indian chess is now witnessing success stories like never before. In the past year alone, the country swept gold at the Chess Olympiad, 18-year-old…
“Divya Deshmukh,” said the little girl dressed in a pink frock and overcoat when asked what her name was. The year was 2013. She had just won the National Under-9 Girls’ Chess Championship at the Nehru Stadium in Chennai, held as one of the side events of the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and…
Abundantly talented but more significantly, incredibly cool in crunch situations, that’s how India’s 88th Grandmaster and World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh was described by her formative coach Srinath Narayanan, who feels the 19-year-old chess wizard’s composure is comparable only to cricket great MS Dhoni. Divya became a part of the growing list of young achievers…
India’s Divya Deshmukh labelled her becoming a Grandmaster, after winning the FIDE Women’s World Cup title on Monday, as fate working its way. Divya outclassed compatriot Koneru Humpy in the tiebreak, winning the second rapid game in a tense rook endgame on Monday in Batumi, Georgia. “I need time to process it. I think it…
India’s Divya Deshmukh beat compatriot Koneru Humpy in tiebreaks to claim the FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup title on Monday, in Batumi, Georgia. The 19-year-old Divya triumphed in the second rapid game, after having drawn the first game. Playing with black pieces, Divya capitalised on an endgame mistake from the experienced Humpy to gain an…
File image of Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh Photo: @AmitShah/ANI Photo Young Indian International Master Divya Deshmukh held her nerves to hold stalwart Koneru Humpy to a draw in game 1 of the FIDE Women’s World Cup final, with both players having their share of opportunities to take the lead here on Saturday. The draw…
19-year-old Divya Deshmukh defeats former Women’s World Champion, Tan Zhongyi of China, to advance to the final of the FIDE Women’s World Cup, in Batumi. | Photo Credit: ANI Grandmaster Koneru Humpy held her nerves to score a come-from-behind victory over China’sTIngjie Lei in the tiebreaker to set up an all-Indian summit clash against Divya…
