“I saw this picture long ago from Messi,” Divya told The Indian Express during an interview.

Divya Deshmukh, the 19-year-old International Master from Nagpur, Maharashtra, etched her name into chess history by defeating Grandmaster Humpy Koneru 1.5–0.5 in the tiebreaks to win the Women’s World Cup in the Georgian city of Batumi on Monday.