Chess | The banana survives in Batumi; India gets its first-ever Women’s World Cup champion in Divya Deshmukh | Chess News
Divya Deshmukh beat Koneru Humpy to become the FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup in Georgia. Her companion through it all was a banana. NEW DELHI: In Batumi, Georgia, the final handshake left nineteen-year-old Divya Deshmukh full of raw emotions and tears — not just for the game she had just won, but for what it…