Divya Deshmukh is the newly crowned champion and winner of the Women’s World Cup 2025. With this victory Divya Deshmukh is awarded the GM title and becomes the 88th Grandmaster of India. Congratulations!
After a month of exciting chess battles, it has all come to the all-Indian final match Humpy Koneru vs Divya Deshmukh. The classical games finished 1-1, and the match was decided in a tiebreak.
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The tiebreak began with a draw in game 1, where Koneru had a chance with 28. Qf6, and Divya missed 37. Qb8. Game 2 started very well for Divya. She quickly equalized the game with black and by move 15 she had 16 minutes on the clock, while her opponent had only 8.
As the clock was under a minute, Humpy Koneru blundered with 41.d5 and Divya Deshmukh found 41…Qe5, to which computer evaluations jumped to -2.5 and more. Yet, she missed 42…Rd8 and Humpy Koneru dogged a bullet in the endgame.
In a massive time trouble Humpy Koneru blundered 54…Rxf4 and this time Divya Deshmukh reacted perfectly. The game went into complications and eval was jumping back and forth. But Divya used a final mistake to convert the game and become champion of the FIDE World Chess Cup 2025.
The game that crowned Divya Deshmukh as the winner of the World Chess Cup
Divya Deshmukh after winning the World Chess Cup 2025 and the Grandmaster title
World Cup Champion crowned, video coverage by Chessbase India
