Earlier this week, the 19-year-old from Nagpur had won the FIDE Women’s World Cup title to secure her grandmaster title as ...

India’s Divya Deshmukh entered the top-15 of FIDE’s world women’s classical chess ranking for the first time after her title ...

The CJI is from Amravati and Deshmukh's grandfather late Dr KG Deshmukh was once vice chancellor of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati ...

Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, aged 19 from India, triumphed in the FIDE Women's World Cup, overcoming challenges against strong ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis felicitated newly-crowned FIDE Women's Chess World Cup champion Divya Deshmukh ...

Amit Bikram Roy, a student of Computer Science and Engineering, and Justin Matthias Baroi, a student of International Business at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), secured second and third ...

The International Chess Federation – also known as FIDE – says players who have transitioned from male to female have “no right to participate” in women’s events until the federation ...

FIDE said it needed to make regulations on transgender players after receiving an influx of requests for gender changes. It ultimately ruled that "change of gender is a change that has a ...

Despite the ban on transgender women competing in the women-only category of chess, the FIDE updated handbook notes that "There are no restrictions to play in the open section for a person who has ...