Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM).

She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship.

She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad.

She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team.

As of September 2023, she is the 7th ranked woman chess player in India.

In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship.

She then finished first in the women's rapid section of the Tata Steel India Chess Tournament, despite being the bottom seed.

At the tournament, she defeated Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agrawal, Koneru Humpy, Savitha Shri B, Irina Krush, and Nino Batsiashvili, drew against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and Anna Ushenina, and suffered her only loss to Polina Shuvalova.