Bhakti Kulkarni

Bhakti Kulkarni (born 19 May 1992) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012 and International Master (IM) in 2019. She won the women's edition of National Premier Chess Championship in both 2018 and 2019 consecutively. She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award for her contribution to chess.

Biography She won the National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) twice in 2007 and 2009. In 2011, she won the Asian Junior Chess Championship. In 2013, she finished first at the international women's chess tournament in Czech Republic — Open Vysočina. In 2016, she won the Asian Chess Women Championship.

She played for the Indian team in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, in which she participated twice (2009, 2016). In the individual competition she won the bronze medal (2009).