Divya Deshmukh pips Humpy to win Ladies’s World Cup, turns into GM

Teenaged Indian chess participant Divya Deshmukh marked a significant milestone in her profession by clinching the FIDE Ladies’s World Cup with a tie-break win over seasoned compatriot Koneru Humpy in Batumi, Georgia, on Monday.

The victory not simply earned the 19-year-old the celebrated title, but in addition made her a grandmaster, one thing which regarded unbelievable when she began the match.

The victory for the Nagpur participant got here after the 2 classical video games performed on Saturday and Sunday resulted in attracts.

After the drawn video games, it was the primary set of tiebreakers that proved decisive as Humpy misplaced the battle of nerves. Besides the World Cup and the Ladies’s World Championship, Humpy has gained all the pieces underneath the solar however, and as destiny would have it, the World Cup title eluded her once more.

Deshmukh confirmed steely resolve on Monday, and the bonus for the willpower was the GM title — reserved for the champion of this occasion. Deshmukh is now the fourth Indian girl to attain the GM norm after Humpy, Dronavalli Harika and R. Vaishali. Humpy (38) turned a GM in 2002 and Divya was born in 2005!

For the report, Deshmukh turned the 88th GM of the nation, and if she continues to stay resolute, has the power to attain nice success.

Deshmukh was a bundle of power as she saved piling strain on Humpy within the opening tiebreaker, tiring out her illustrious opponent after which going for the kill within the return tiebreaker.