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IM Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh
Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.
Full name
Divya Deshmukh
Born
12/9/2005 (age 18)‎
Place of birth
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India
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IM Divya Deshmukh is an Indian international master. She is India's 2022 women's chess champion and the 2023 Asian women's chess champion. In 2024, she won the women's under-20 world championship at the age of 18.

Divya scored 9.5/11 points at the 45th Chess Olympiad, winning the individual gold medal on the third board to help India also win the team gold.

The name Deshmukh is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by her name, Divya.

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