Indian chess player Divya Deshmukh defeated senior master Koneru Humpy to clinch the FIDE Women’s World Cup title in Georgia on Monday.
Deshmukh, 19, beat the Indian veteran and the country’s first woman Grandmaster in the grand final clash via tie-break.
With the win, she is now eligible to become India’s fourth woman Grandmaster.
The final match was significant as two Indian nationals belonging to separate generations competed for the title.
Chinese stars Tan Zhongyi and Lei Tingjie battled for the third spot.
“I think it was fate, me getting the grandmaster title this way,” Divya was quoted as saying by The Indian Express after her victory in the crucial final clash.
“Before the tournament, I didn’t even have one norm. I was thinking that I could maybe earn a grandmaster norm here. And at the end, I became a grandmaster.”
