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=2019=
== World No. 1 in U-14==
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F04%2F04&entity=Ar02606&sk=0D91164E&mode=text  Amit Sampat, Chess prodigy Divya is world No. 1 in U-14, April 4, 2019:  ''The Times of India'']


Orange City’s little chess queen Divya Deshmukh touched a new high in 2019. The 13-year-old is now world no.1in the under-14 girls’ section. She becomes the second Indian after Koneru Humpy to hold the rank.

Divya’s 2432 Elo rating also makes her No. 5 in the junior (U-20) category. She is the only Indian in the top 10 of this list. The achievement places her at No. 3 among Indian women. Ahead of her are the more experienced 31-year-old Humpy (2549 Elo) and 28-year-old Harika Dronavalli (2492 Elo).

“I had not expected both to happen so fast. I just hope I can maintain the rating and also go on to become No.1 as soon as possible. This isn’t the limit for me,” Divya told TOI.

Divya’s rise in the rating is very fast and she has done “pretty well in the last three months”, according to Humpy.. “After me, I think Divya is the only women player to have achieved this feat,” she said.

A two-time world cadet chess champion, Divya became city’s first Women International Master (WIM) in 2018 and started the year with an Elo of 2168. In three months, she garnered 264 international rating points.

Following her maiden triumph in the open women category at the AICF International Round Robin tournament, Divya scored her first IM norm too. At the Aeroflot Open 2019, she missed the IM norm but cleared her second WGM norm and also touched a live rating of 2,400.

=2024=
==World junior girls chess champion==
[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=14_06_2024_027_023_cap_TOI  Amit Sampat, June 14, 2024: ''The Times of India'']


Nagpur: India’s best Divya Deshmukh is the new world junior girls chess champion. The two-time reigning national women’s chess champion is now the U-20 queen of the world. In her second appearance at the Worlds, which concluded at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Nagpur’s Deshmukh remained unbeaten to win her maiden U-20 crown collecting 10 points.

 Exactly 21 days after winning the classical open Sharjah Challengers title, where the 18-year-old participated to gain some match practice, Divya played with confidence and proved her mettle in the U-20 championship. This triumph, without losing a single game, takes Divya’s tally of international gold medals to 21 while representing India in 38 age category tournaments. Despite becoming the Asian Women’s Chess champion last year, the U-20 world crown was missing in Divya’s kitty.

 Divya, the top-ranked among Indian girls in U-20 category, was playing her second international tournament after a break which she took for the Std XII board examinations. 

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=See also=
[[Chess: India]]

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