Vega Schools is ecstatic to celebrate and honour the international chess phenomenon – Divya Deshmukh. She is now crowned as the World’s best women’s chess player after her win at the FIDE women World Cup.
An Ascent to the Global Scene from Nagpur
The 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh, born in December 2005 in Nagpur to a family of doctors, juggled her studies at Bhavans Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir with an early interest in chess. Before her breakout performance in Georgia, Divya was already a well-established talent, having won several championships, including Asian Women’s Champion, World U-20 Girls Champion (2024), and Olympiad gold medals.
With the 19-year-old Divya being half as old as the seasoned Humpy—India’s first female grandmaster—the final match between the two was a battle of generations. The fact that two Indians advanced to the final out of 107 players showed that, similar to the open division, where players like Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa have begun to make their presence known, India could lead women’s chess shortly following decades of Chinese and Russian grandmaster dominance.
A New Chapter in Indian Women’s Chess History
Her triumph was widely praised, not just by chess fans but also by renowned figures such as Viswanathan Anand, who referred to it as a “celebration of Indian chess,” and the Polgar sisters, who celebrated India’s newfound strength on the international chess scene. Divya is now unquestionably in the forefront of an exceptional generation of Indian chess talent thanks to this victory.
Vega Schools and Chess – A Perfect Fit
Vega’s SPEED physical education curriculum incorporates chess in addition to table tennis, badminton and other sports. Students are exposed to chess in an organised manner.
In contrast to other schools that offer chess as an elective, Vega incorporates it into its learning-by-doing philosophy by connecting chess strategic patterns to DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels such as extended thinking, synthesis, and analysis.
Vega Schools demonstrates how strategic thinking, essential to both the game and performance, helps develop resilient learners through a series of engaging workshops. And chess-themed activities.
Club for Chess and Other Extracurricular Activities
The Primary Campus (Sector 48) hosts the Chess Club, which provides students with practical experience through friendly competitions, tactics sessions, and strategy discussions—a contextualised playground for the development of cognitive skills.
Vega Schools will illustrate how strategic thinking, essential to both the game and performance, helps develop resilient learners through a series of engaging workshops, school-wide assemblies, and chess-themed activities.
The emphasis placed by Vega Schools on cultivating strategic planning, emotional fortitude, and chain-of-thought is akin to the mental toughness displayed by Divya on her World Cup voyage. Students are able to relate to this aspect of training at Vega Schools.
Together, Divya Deshmukh’s historic accomplishments and Vega Schools’ celebrations of accomplishments provide a vivid illustration of how education and sports can motivate young people.
Students are inspired to look years ahead—possibly to world championship glory—through strategic learning and real-world role models.
Vega Schools offers holistic education to children in Delhi NCR and is rated among the top Schools in Gurgaon. Its modern infrastructure, facilities, and experienced teachers are a big asset to the learning & development of students, be it for Nursery, Primary or Senior children making Vega Schools the best schools in Gurgaon. For information about admission please visit the Vega Schools campuses in Sector 48 and Sector 76 Gurugram.