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India's Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh are set to face each other in Game 2 of the FIDE Women's World Cup final on Sunday.
Indian chess is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough as Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh are set to battle in the final of ...
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy and International Master Divya Deshmukh played out a 41-move draw in Game 1 of the FIDE Women’s ...
Divya Deshmukh becomes the first Indian woman to reach the FIDE Women’s World Cup Final and secures a spot in the 2026 ...
Divya Deshmukh made history by reaching the FIDE Women’s World Chess Cup final, defeating Zhongyi Tan and becoming the first ...
All you need to know as R Vaishali, Harikia Dronavalli and other Indians battle chess's best in the World Cup.
FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky refuted American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s statement suggesting the rating spot in the Candidates ...
Koneru Humpy vs Divya Deshmukh, FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup 2025: Humpy’s repeated checks against Deshmukh resulted in repetitions and the first match being drawn on ...
Divya Deshmukh, 19, is winning plaudits as she enters the ongoing FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 by defeating former World ...
The plot got thick quick as the FIDE Candidates Tournament kicked off last week in Madrid, with two Americans among the eight elite grandmasters competing for the right to take on world champion ...
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy overcame TIngjie Lei in a thrilling tiebreaker at the FIDE Women's World Cup to face Divya Deshmukh in an all-Indian final. Both have qualified for the next year's Women's ...
Among the hierarchy of chess titles that include International Master (IM), FIDE Master (FM), Candidate Master (CM), and ...