The world champion D Gukesh and the compatriot R Praggnanandhaa were amazed when the duo stopped their respective games at the Tata Chess Masters in progress to witness 11 -year -old gold Faustino gold, Divya Deshmukh, Divya Deshmukh, Divya Deshmukh.
Known as the ‘Messi of Chess’ Faustino comes from Argentina, like the legendary Lionel Messi, and became the youngest IM in 2024 when he was only 10 years, eight months and 16 days. However, his history has been broken since then by Roman Shogdzhiev in January 2025.
Playing under the same roof, Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa were deeply in their games when Faustino played Despmukh. Reacting to the success of the chess prodigy against Deshmukh, both Indian grandparents, stopped their games and took Faustino note with amazement.
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Faustino grabbed Limelight when he defeated the Magnus Carlsen world during a Bullet Brawl weekly tournament in May 2024. A year earlier, Faustino obtained a qualification of 2300 in classic format, thus becoming the youngest to do so in that moment.
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On the other hand, Deshmukh is one of the best players in India and is three times gold medalist in the Olympiad. He has also won multiple gold medals in the Asian championship, World Junior C’Ship and World Youth Championship.
In 2022, Deshmukh won the female Indian chess championship and also won an individual bronze in the chess Olympiad the same year. The young man was also part of the Indian team that won the Olympiad 2020 chess online and currently is the second among chess players in India.
Despite being sown in the background in 2023 Tata Steel India Tournament, Deshmukh went out to the top of the fast section, defeating characters like Koneru Humpy, Irina Krush, Nino Batsiahvili, Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri, she had drawn Against B. Wenjun, Anna Ushenina and lost to Poly Shuvalova.