Name of the Sportsperson: Koneru Humpy
Discipline: Chess
Date of Birth: 31 March 1987
State: Andhra Pradesh
Achievements and Awards
• World under-14 championship, 2001, Castellan, Spain.
• Asia's youngest International Woman Master, 1999.
• India's youngest Woman GM, 2001.
• World junior championship, 2001, Athens.
• World's youngest Women Grandmaster to achieve full Grandmaster status.
• Arjuna Award in the year 2003
• In the year 2007 she was awarded with the prestigious Padma Shri award.
• She was also conferred upon the Raja Lakshmi Award in the year 2008 by Raja Lakshmi Foundation of Chennai.
• She also won the International Open Chess Tournament 2007 held at Kaupthing, Luxembourg.
Profile
Koneru Humpy is a Female Indian Chess Player and arguably the best woman at the Chess Board that the nation has ever produced. Humpy has broken the world record set by Susan Polgar who had a rating of 2577 points while she was at the World No. 2 spot.
She caught everybody’s attention for the first time when she won the Under 8 National Chess Championship in the year 1995.
At Doha Asian Games 2006, Koneru Humpy made the nation proud by bagging two Gold Medals in the Individual as well as Team event of Chess. She also won the International Open Chess Tournament 2007 held at Kaupthing, Luxembourg. In October 2007, Humpy scored a FIDE Elo rating of 2606 points, which lagged her behind only the World No. 1 Female Chess Player, Judit Polgar. Humpy has also been the second woman ever in the history of Chess who has crossed the 2600 points mark, Judit being the first one to do so.
