Chess has always been in Divya Deshmukh’s gene; Pardada used to play chess news with Vinoba Bhave

Nagpur: A few people know that Divya Deshmukh takes her veins to a calm heritage. The youngest and only Indian woman to win the Women’s Chess World Cup, Divya to her maternal grandfather, Dr. Durgaprasad Sharma inherited his love for the 64-class battlefield.Sharma, a chess played with Afsionado, Vinoba Bhave, a lawyer of non -violence, social reformer, Gandhi’s spiritual successor and freedom fighter. Although Bhave’s penchant is not so well documented in the public domain to play chess, the Deshmukh family has a picture of Sharma and Bhohan’s movement in chess games in the 1970s.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Divya’s mother Dr. Namrata Deshmukh said that her 19 -year -old poster girl of chess was fixed to play the game. Dr. Namrata said, “This is in her genes,” referring to a smile, referring to her grandfather, referring to himself to be a chess. In a chat with Toi, Dr. Namrata said, “My grandfather, my mother’s father, Dr. Durgaprasad Sharma, Acharya Vinoba were close to Bhav. He used to play chess at the Holiness Ashram every Saturday.”For her mother, chess was nothing, just dived into Divya. This doctor was like a nutritious desire of Jitendra and Namrata. Divya’s visit to chess began in 2010 when she was just five years old. When Namrata found a nearby chess academy in his residential colony in Shankar Nagar, Nagpur, he nominated Divya. Dr. Namrata said, “As I was watching my grandfather and Acharya Bhava playing chess every Saturday, I was fascinated with it.,

Durgaprasad Sharma and Vinoba Bhave play chess (TOI special arrangement)

While Divya’s elder sister Aariya started playing basketball and badminton in her colony, Dr. Namrata wanted her younger daughter to play chess. He said, “When I got Rahul Joshi Sir’s chess academy near our Shankar Nagar Niwas, I enrolled in Divya. Fortunately, he developed interest in the game and started progressing continuously.”In 2012, Divya won her first national gold medal and never looked back.Divya made her first international issue by becoming U -8 Asian Champion and qualified to represent India in the World Youth Championship. In 2014, eight-year-old Divya became the youngest U-10 world champion in Durban, South Africa.

To focus on Divya’s dreams on checker boxes, Dr. Namrata left her medical system. He said, “As a doctor, it was unimaginable that Divya was missing from school, not studying only to focus on playing chess. Although she was focusing, it was a risk, but we went with the flow. Divya was happy and interested in chess, so we had to support it.”With Divya winning medals in every age group and regularly unable to participate in academic classes, her parents enrolled her in open school education, where she completed her class 12. Divya has also started her graduation.Every time Divya wins an international medal, the discussion in the Deshmukh family revolves around Destiny. “Looking at his progress, many times I think it is my grandfather’s blessing,” Dr. Namrata said.