With the Candidates in mind, India's rising star Divya Deshmukh will compete in the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 Open section.

Divya Deshmukh is all set to compete in the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 in Samarkand after receiving a wildcard. This tournament ...

Moving on to the Open category at the fourth edition of the FIDE Grand Swiss event, Divya will be up against a stacked field ...

Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, who had recently defeated Koneru Humpy in an all-Indian Women’s Chess World Cup final recently, ...

In the third edition of the Women's World Cup, Divya, the 15th seed at this tournament, is now its youngest finalist - a year younger than Nurgyul Salimova was when she made the final of the previous ...

After winning the 2025 Women’s Chess World Cup in style and becoming India’s 88th Grandmaster, Divya Deshmukh faces a brand ...

So Divya Deshmukh will be taking on the men at the FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament in Uzbekistan next month.

After becoming the first Indian woman to lift the World Cup, the 19-year-old is now at an important stage of her career.

IN GEORGIA, a country that birthed some of the earliest pioneers of women’s chess, India has discovered its own world-beater: Divya Deshmukh, aged just 19, became the FIDE Women’s World Cup champion ...

R. Vaishali, the other Indian in the field, was eliminated after losing 6-8 to American IM Alice Lee in the first round.

Koneru Humpy reflected on her FIDE Women's Chess World Cup final defeat to Divya Deshmukh, and revealed the key reasons.