Divya Deshmukh barged into the highest 15 of the world because the August 2025 scores checklist was launched by FIDE, the worldwide governing physique of chess. Her ranking additionally swelled by 15 factors to go to 2478 after her barnstorming marketing campaign on the FIDE Ladies’s World Cup in Batumi, Georgia, the place she gained the title regardless of coming into the match because the Fifteenth-best ranked participant. Because of profitable the World Cup, arguably probably the most treacherous match to win in ladies’s chess, Divya additionally turned a grandmaster, India’s 88th. She can also be solely the fourth girl from the nation to get clinch highest title on provide within the sport.
Profitable the FIDE Ladies’s World Cup additionally helped her safe a spot within the FIDE Ladies’s Candidates match, the place eight gamers will battle for the appropriate to problem the reigning ladies’s world champion Ju Wenjun within the subsequent Ladies’s World Championship.
With 2535 ranking factors, Koneru Humpy, who Divya defeated within the remaining of the World Cup in an exciting tiebreak, stays the top-ranked Indian on the planet within the ladies’s rankings checklist. Humpy has, nevertheless, gone down one spot to no 6 in a rating checklist dominated by the Chinese language. The veteran Harika Dronavalli, who misplaced to Divya within the quarterfinal of the FIDE World Cup, was ranked twelfth on the planet amongst ladies, forward of Divya.
There are 5 ladies from China occupying the highest 5 spots within the FIDE scores checklist for girls: Hou Yifan (world no 1 at 2607), Ju Wenjun (No 2 with 2570), Lei Tingjie (No 3 with 2565), Tan Zhongyi (No 4 with 2539) and Zhu Jiner (No 5 with 2536).
In the meantime within the open scores checklist, there are three Indians among the many world’s no 6, led by Praggnanandhaa at world no 4 with a ranking of 2779. World champion Gukesh is not any 5 whereas Arjun Erigaisi is not any 6. Each gamers have the identical factors, 2776.
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