Koneru Humpy

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Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion.[1][2] In 2002, she became the youngest female player--and the first Indian female player--to achieve the title of Grandmaster, aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record only since surpassed by Hou Yifan.[3][4] Humpy is a gold medalist at the Olympiad, Asian Games, and Asian Championship.[5]

In October 2007, she became the second female player, after Judit Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606.[6][7]

Humpy won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in 2019 and 2024.

Career

Humpy won three gold medals at the World Youth Chess Championship: in 1997 (under-10 girls' division), 1998 (under-12 girls) and 2000 (under-14 girls). In 1999, at the Asian Youth Chess Championship, held in Ahmedabad, she won the under-12 section, competing with the boys.[8] In 2001, Humpy won the World Junior Girls Championship. In the following year's edition, she tied for first place with Zhao Xue, but placed second on tiebreak.[9] She became the eighth woman to earn the Grandmaster title in 2002, and the first Indian female player[10] and the youngest female player to do so. She earned her first GM norm at the Hotel Lipa International in June 2001. Her second GM norm was at the 3rd Saturday GM tournament, which she won, in October 2001. She made her final GM norm in the Elekes Memorial, also tying for first place.[11] Humpy competed with the boys in the 2004 World Junior Championship, which was won by Pentala Harikrishna and tied for fifth place, finishing tenth on countback with a score of 8.5/13 points.[12]

Humpy won the British Women's Championship in 2000 and in 2002. In 2003, she won the 10th Asian Women's Individual Championship and the Indian Women's Championship.[13][14] In 2005, she won the North Urals Cup, a round-robin tournament held in Krasnoturyinsk, Russia featuring ten of the strongest female players in the world at the time.[15]

She participated in the Women's World Chess Championship for the first time in 2004 and since then, she has competed in every edition of the event held with the knockout format. Humpy reached the semifinals in 2004, 2008 and 2010.

In 2009, she tied for 1st–4th with Alexander Areshchenko, Magesh Panchanathan and Evgenij Miroshnichenko in the Mumbai Mayor Cup.[16]

In 2009, Humpy accused the All India Chess Federation of preventing her from participating in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin.[17][18] Her father Koneru Ashok, who was coaching her, was not allowed to travel with her for tournaments.

Humpy took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011 and finished in overall second position, in turn qualifying as challenger for Women's World Chess Championship 2011.[19][20] Hou Yifan won the match, winning three games and drawing five. She finished runner-up in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series also in the 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16 and 2019–21 editions.

She won the individual bronze at the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015 held in Chengdu, China. Team India finished fourth in the competition – a point behind China, which won the bronze medal.[21]

In 2019, she became women's World Rapid champion after coming back from a two-year maternity sabbatical.[22]

In 2020, Humpy won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year award, following a public vote.[23]

She also competed at the 2022 Chess Olympiad as part of the women's India team, which achieved a bronze medal.[24]

In 2023, Humpy was the runner up in the World Rapid championships.[25]

In 2024, she became the World Rapid champion for the second time in her career.[26]

Personal life

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Humpy in Wijk aan Zee, 2006

Koneru Humpy was born in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, on 31 March 1987.[27] She was originally named "Hampi" by her parents, Koneru Ashok and Koneru Latha,[28] who derived the name from the word "champion". Her father later changed the spelling to Humpy, to more closely resemble a Russian-sounding name.[29][30] She was coached in chess at a young age by her father Ashok after he discovered her talent when she suggested a move as played out by a game from The Chess Informator. It was 1993, and Humpy was six-years-old then. In the same year, she won the Vijayawada city and Krishna district under-eight championships. She won the State-level championships in 1994 and 1995 and qualified for the national under-eight championship for girls in Madurai in 1995, where she finished fourth. From that year, her father started coaching her exclusively. She would then go on to win the national under-10 championship for girls in 1996 in Mumbai, which led to a qualification for the 1997 World Under-10 Girls Chess Championship at Cannes, France, which she would go on to win.[27]

In August 2014, Humpy married Dasari Anvesh.[31] They have a daughter together named Ahana (b. 2017).[32] Since 2016, Humpy has been working with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).[33]

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Titles

S.No Year Date Venue Points (Win/draw/loss) Result
1 2009 7–19 March 2009 Istanbul, Turkey 8.5/11 (+7=3-1) Gold Gold
2 2010 30 July – 11 August 2010 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 6.5/11 Bronze Bronze
3 2011 23 February – 5 March 2011 Doha, Qatar 8/11 (+6=4-1) Gold Gold
4 2012 10–21 June 2012 Kazan, Russia 7.5/11 (+4 =7 –0) Gold Gold
5 2012 16–28 September 2012 Ankara, Turkey 8.5/11 (+7 =3 –1) Gold Gold
6 2013 June 15 – 29 June 2013 Dilijan, Armenia 8/11 (+5=6–0) Gold Gold
7 2013 17 September – 1 October 2013 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 8/11 (+6=4–1) Gold Gold
8 2015 2–16 October 2015 Monte Carlo, Monaco 7/11 Bronze Bronze
9 2016 1–15 July 2016 Chengdu, China 7/11 (+5=4-2) Silver Silver
10 2019 10–23 September 2019 Skolkovo, Russia 8/11 (+5=6-0) Gold Gold
11 2019 2–15 December 2019 Monaco 7/11 (+4=6-1) Gold Gold - Shared 1st Place
12 2023 1–14 February 2023 Munich, Germany 7/11 (+3=8-0) Silver Silver

Achievements

Awards

File:The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Kumari Koneru Humpy (Chess), at an Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 23, 2007.jpg
President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (left) presenting Padma Shri to Humpy (right), 2007

See also

References

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