Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh has stated she was not underneath any sort of stress whereas enjoying the FIDE Women’s World Cup ultimate in opposition to compatriot Koneru Humpy as she had “nothing to lose”.
Divya arrived in Nagpur on Wednesday from Batumi, Georgia to a reception befitting a world champion, with the younger achiever overwhelmed by the love proven by the the individuals on the airport.
The 19-year-old overcame the 38-year-old Humpy, a two-time World Rapid champion, within the time-controlled tie-break after the 2 classical rounds resulted in attracts. This was Divya’s largest success in her profession and got here after Humpy blundered within the second tie-breaker underneath time stress.
“I never thought I was in any danger. I guess that the last blunder which she [Humpy] made, handed me the win,” Divya advised PTI Videos, when requested if she was underneath stress within the ultimate.
“Since I had no results in my hand, so I was just trying to focus on my performance and wasn’t thinking about anything else,” stated Divya, who entered the occasion as an underdog aiming to win a Grandmaster norm and ended up turning into a GM.
Divya not simply gained the match and earned the GM title, she additionally secured a spot in subsequent 12 months’s Candidates and have become richer by $50,000.
Divya is hoping girls’s chess will take off in a giant method in India following her success.
“I am hoping that women will take up the sport in a big way after this success, especially youngsters, and they start dreaming that nothing is impossible.
“I haven’t got a message for the younger technology however for his or her mother and father and that’s they need to wholeheartedly help their kids as a result of they want them extra throughout their failures, not a lot in success,” added Divya.
On her arrival at the airport on Wednesday night, Divya had credited her success to her parents.
“My mother and father have performed the largest function in my profession. Without them I would not have reached right here. Credit to my household, my mother and father, my sister, and my first coach, Rahul Joshi sir. He at all times needed me to turn into the Grandmaster, and that is for him,” said Divya, about Joshi, who died in 2020 at just 40 years of age.
“My mom and father had an even bigger function to play however positively my entire household, my sister Arya Deshmukh, my grandmother, grandfather…I do not suppose no matter I will say shall be sufficient [for my parents].”
