. Indian chess prodigy Divya Deshmukh grew to become the youngest to win the FIDE Girls’s World Cup on Monday at simply the age of 19, outshining the seasoned Koneru Humpy within the tie-breaker of an all-Indian remaining.
Together with her win, a feat that left {the teenager} emotional, Deshmukh not solely earned the distinguished title but additionally grew to become a Grandmaster.
The victory for the Nagpur participant got here after the 2 classical video games performed on Saturday and Sunday led to attracts.
After the drawn video games, it was the primary set of tiebreakers that proved decisive as Humpy misplaced her floor.
Divya Deshmukh became the 88th Grandmaster of the nation, as she emerged victorious over Humpy on the FIDE Girls’s World Cup. She his now the fourth Indian lady participant to attain the GM feat after Humpy, Dronavalli Harika and R Vaishali.
“I would like time to course of it (win). I believe it was destiny, me getting the Grandmaster title this manner as a result of earlier than this (event) I did not even have one (GM) norm, and now I’m the Grandmaster,” she stated.
Divya Deshmukh secured a gold, Humpy Koneru pocketed silver, whereas China’s sensation Tan Zhongy completed the event with a bronze medal.
How a lot prize cash did Divya Deshmukh win?
In accordance with the FIDE web site, the entire prize fund accrued for this 12 months’s Women’s World Cup was $691,250. Out of this, the winner shall be given $50,000.
This implies Divya Deshmukh acquired a prize cash of $50,000, or roughly ₹43.5 lakh for profitable the distinguished championship.
The FIDE World Cup additionally awards three spots to the FIDE Girls’s Candidates Event to be held within the first half of 2026.
Nonetheless, the prize cash is considerably decrease than that of the FIDE World Cup (Open part, which incorporates each women and men), the place the winner will get $110,000.
Through the tense contest, a string of inaccuracies within the second fast recreation contributed to Koneru’s downfall. She discovered herself a pawn down within the rook endgame, which performed out in Divya’s favour. The veteran allowed the scenario to sink in and resigned on the seventy fifth transfer and fell brief in a gripping remaining with a rating of two.5-1.5.
