NAGPUR: 21 days of heroic play with back-to-back international titles on her way to become the World Junior Girls Chess champion made 18-year-old Divya Deshmukh the youngest in the list of world's top-20 women players currently.
With a live rating of 2464 Elo, Nagpur's International Master (IM) made a giant leap to become world no. 20 in the live women ratings. After she conquered the Sharjah Challengers chess title last month, Divya was India no. 4 and world's 24th ranked woman player before the World Junior Chess Championship with an Elo of 2456.
