World Team Blitz Championship: PM Narendra Modi Hails Divya Deshmukh After She Stuns World No.1 Hou Yifan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised India’s chess prodigy, Divya Deshmukh for her remarkable win over World No. 1 Hou Yifan.

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00:00I'm quite happy. My first reaction was definitely to check my team's course because we needed a

00:11win to settle this course. So yeah, that was my first reaction.

00:15Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised you. How do you feel about that?

00:20Honourable Modi has written a lot of nice things that are very encouraging and motivating. So it

00:28makes me feel quite good and also gives me a lot of motivation to win medals for India in the future.

00:35Did you prepare any special strategy before that match?

00:39No, I didn't have time to prepare because it was quite last moment but I would say my

00:45teammates were very encouraging and they were quite motivating and that really helped me to become.

00:51What's your next goal after this historic victory?

00:54I'm playing in World Cup next month, so I'm preparing for this.