Nagpur: Orange City’s little chess queen Divya Deshmukh touched a new prime on Tuesday. The 13-year-old is now international no. 1 within the under-14 girls’ phase. She turns into the second Indian after Koneru Humpy to hold the rank.
Divya’s 2432 Elo score additionally makes her No. five within the junior (U-20) class. She is the one Indian within the most sensible 10 of this record. The success places her at No. 3 among Indian ladies. Ahead of her are the more experienced 31-year-old Humpy (2549 Elo) and 28-year-old Harika Dronavalli (2492 Elo).
“I had now not expected each to happen so fast. I simply hope I will be able to handle the score and also go on to become No.1 as soon as conceivable. This isn’t the restrict for me,” Divya instructed TOI.
Divya’s upward thrust within the score could be very fast and he or she has accomplished “beautiful neatly within the closing three months”, in keeping with Humpy. “This is a very good signal for the rustic. After me, I believe Divya is the one ladies participant to have accomplished this feat,” she instructed TOI.
A two-time international cadet chess champion, Divya changed into city’s first Women International Master (WIM) in 2018 and started the 12 months with an Elo of 2168. In three months, she garnered 264 international score points.
Following her maiden triumph within the open ladies class at the AICF International Round Robin tournament, Divya scored her first IM norm too. At the Aeroflot Open 2019, she ignored the IM norm however cleared her second WGM norm and also touched a live score of two,400.
Divya’s constant performance just lately helped her go past senior Indian avid gamers like Soumya Swaminathan (2402), Tania Sachdev (2397), Eesha Karavade (2370), Padmini Rout (2364), R Vaishali (2353), Bhakti Kulkarni (2350) and Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (2342) among others.
In October 2001, a 14-year-old Humpy had cleared the two,400 mark to become the youngest Indian participant ever to take action. Within a 12 months she additionally changed into World’s youngest GM beating Judit Polgar's previous mark through three months. Humpy’s report was once broken through Chinese Hou Yifan in 2008.
“It is an indication of fast growth and her studying is in the appropriate route,” mentioned Humpy of Divya touching the 2400 Elo mark.
“Crossing 2400 is superb because it additionally is helping in getting the IM title. Otherwise, crossing the score turns into more difficult than clearing norms,” mentioned Divya.
While Divya broke Humpy’s report of accomplishing the 2400 Elo mark through some months, the 13-year-old has in her all the elements of becoming India’s youngest GM too. Humpy, however, has a phrase of caution for Divya. “Divya’s tough struggle starts from here as her fighters can be more alert. She needs to paintings a lot to handle the score and should simplest suppose on how one can support additional,” she mentioned.
“I believe keeping up the score may also be little tough and lengthening it'll be in point of fact tough now. My preliminary aim is to become an IM and then as same old the GM title. But making improvements to my game is my precedence,” mentioned Divya.
Divya, who just lately changed into Maharashtra’s youngest Shiv Chhatrapati awardee with city’s Raunak Sadhwani, is lately taking part as the 39th seed within the 21st Dubai Open.
Divya’s 2432 Elo score additionally makes her No. five within the junior (U-20) class. She is the one Indian within the most sensible 10 of this record. The success places her at No. 3 among Indian ladies. Ahead of her are the more experienced 31-year-old Humpy (2549 Elo) and 28-year-old Harika Dronavalli (2492 Elo).
“I had now not expected each to happen so fast. I simply hope I will be able to handle the score and also go on to become No.1 as soon as conceivable. This isn’t the restrict for me,” Divya instructed TOI.
Divya’s upward thrust within the score could be very fast and he or she has accomplished “beautiful neatly within the closing three months”, in keeping with Humpy. “This is a very good signal for the rustic. After me, I believe Divya is the one ladies participant to have accomplished this feat,” she instructed TOI.
A two-time international cadet chess champion, Divya changed into city’s first Women International Master (WIM) in 2018 and started the 12 months with an Elo of 2168. In three months, she garnered 264 international score points.
Following her maiden triumph within the open ladies class at the AICF International Round Robin tournament, Divya scored her first IM norm too. At the Aeroflot Open 2019, she ignored the IM norm however cleared her second WGM norm and also touched a live score of two,400.
Divya’s constant performance just lately helped her go past senior Indian avid gamers like Soumya Swaminathan (2402), Tania Sachdev (2397), Eesha Karavade (2370), Padmini Rout (2364), R Vaishali (2353), Bhakti Kulkarni (2350) and Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (2342) among others.
In October 2001, a 14-year-old Humpy had cleared the two,400 mark to become the youngest Indian participant ever to take action. Within a 12 months she additionally changed into World’s youngest GM beating Judit Polgar's previous mark through three months. Humpy’s report was once broken through Chinese Hou Yifan in 2008.
“It is an indication of fast growth and her studying is in the appropriate route,” mentioned Humpy of Divya touching the 2400 Elo mark.
“Crossing 2400 is superb because it additionally is helping in getting the IM title. Otherwise, crossing the score turns into more difficult than clearing norms,” mentioned Divya.
While Divya broke Humpy’s report of accomplishing the 2400 Elo mark through some months, the 13-year-old has in her all the elements of becoming India’s youngest GM too. Humpy, however, has a phrase of caution for Divya. “Divya’s tough struggle starts from here as her fighters can be more alert. She needs to paintings a lot to handle the score and should simplest suppose on how one can support additional,” she mentioned.
“I believe keeping up the score may also be little tough and lengthening it'll be in point of fact tough now. My preliminary aim is to become an IM and then as same old the GM title. But making improvements to my game is my precedence,” mentioned Divya.
Divya, who just lately changed into Maharashtra’s youngest Shiv Chhatrapati awardee with city’s Raunak Sadhwani, is lately taking part as the 39th seed within the 21st Dubai Open.
At 13, chess queen Divya is World no. 1 in U-14 girls & India no. 3 among women
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