Divya Deshmukh: The Teen Prodigy Who Conquered the FIDE Women’s World Chess Champion 2025
We remember her as the little girl in a pink frock and an even pinker overcoat, standing shyly at Chennai’s Nehru Stadium. “Divya Deshmukh,” she introduced herself with quiet confidence after clinching the National Under-9 girls’ chess title in 2013. Fast forward to today, and that same girl has just made history, becoming the first Indian […]