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The current world champion Gukesh Domaraju (D Gukesh Chess) is currently struggling with a very poor form. He did not get defeat in his recent match, but the compatriot Divya Deshmukh has created a sensation by stopping him at the draw (Gukesh vs Divya Deshmukh). In December 2024, Gukesh became the world’s youngest world champion in the chess world, but has failed to perform well after that. His match lasted for 6 hours on Friday, where in the end Gukesh and Divya joined hands for a draw. After this draw, Divya Deshmukh is trending fiercely on social media.
D Gukesh has suffered a loss in the ranking due to playing a draw against Divya, due to which she has been out of the top-10. Divya is being highly appreciated for this performance.
Who is Divya Deshmukh?
Divya Deshmukh also came into discussion in July this year, when she became the first Women Fide World Champion in history. According to Dainik Jagran, he was born on 9 December 2005 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. His father’s name is Jitendra and mother’s name is Namrata, both are doctors by profession. Divya began to be interested in sports when her elder sister started earning a name in badminton. But at the age of five, she felt a different attachment to chess and proceeded in it.
In 2012, he won the Under-7 National Championship and captured the Under-10 World Youth Championship in 2014. In this memorable journey, he got the status of Grandmaster in the year 2021. Talking about his studies, he has studied school from Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir in Nagpur. She had become a national champion by the age of year. His focus is now on moving forward in Chase Career, but at the same time he has special interest in sports psychology, performance science and chase data analytics. She is also doing further studies.
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