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FIDE Grand Swiss: Divya Deshmukh ready to lose 11 rounds - 'I will be fine if I learn'

India Grand Master (GM) Divya Deshmukh says she will not thoughts dropping all 11 video games within the ongoing FIDE Grand Swiss match in Samarkand so long as she is studying.Divya was handed a defeat by her mentor Abhimanyu Puranik, who helped her win the FIDE Women’s World Cup, within the opening spherical. But the 19-12 months-outdated bounced again in type to maintain Alexander Donchenko to a attract spherical 2.“Even if I lose all the rounds, I think I will be fine if I learn,” she instructed ChessBase India.“Every loss hurts a lot. When you play stronger players continuously, you learn so much even if you lose.“You study your self, you study what you need to and shouldn’t do. For me, the outcome just isn’t that necessary, greater than what I take again from this match. This is certainly the strongest open match that I have performed.“I don’t want to say that I am used to getting beaten by these players,” she added.

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This is the third time this year that Divya is plying her trade in the open section, after Tata Steel Challengers and the Prague Challengers events.“Today I by no means actually felt that I was in any hazard at any level,” Divya mentioned in an interview with Take Take Take.“I’m motivated enough to play here since I have to fight with these players. Yesterday was a bit of a disappointing loss, because I thought I could have won.”

Published 6 September 2025 2:06 PM · Headlines

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