Playing under the same roof, Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa were deep into their matches when Faustino played Deshmukh. Reacting to the the chess prodigy success against Deshmukh, both the Indian Grandmasters, paused their games and took a note of Faustino in amazement.
Who is Faustino Oro? All you need to know
Faustino grabbed limelight when he defeated world No.1 Magnus Carlsen during a weekly Bullet Brawl tournament in May 2024. A year prior, Faustino got 2300 rating in classical format, thus becoming the youngest to do so at that time.
Who is Indian IM Divya Deshmukh?
On the other hand, Deshmukh is one of the top female players in India and is a three-time gold medalist at the Olympiad. She has also won multiple gold medals at the Asian Championship, World Junior C’ship and World Youth Championship.
In 2022, Deshmukh won the women’s Indian Chess Championship and also also won an individual bronze at the Chess Olympiad the same year. The youngster was also a part of the Indian team that won the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 and is currently the second among female chess players in India.
Despite being bottom seeded at 2023 Tata Steel India Chess Tournament, Deshmukh came out on top of the rapid section, defeating the likes of Koneru Humpy, Irina Krush, Nino Batsiashvili, Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B. She had drawn against Ju Wenjun, Anna Ushenina and lost to Polin Shuvalova.
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