Humpy Walks Untrodden Chess Path
Published on May 3, 2007
By Jaydip Sengupta, Sports Writer
Sitting at adjacent tables, two players corner most of the attention at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. It’s the final round of the Dubai Open Chess Championships and the sizeable crowd is glued to the boards as the two Grandmasters (GMs) ponder their next move.
There are GMs aplenty in the huge hall, but these two are special, because they are Women Grandmasters (WGMs) who have ratings high enough to feature in the list of men’s GMs.
Georgia’s Maia Chiburdanidze has been a women’s world champion from 1978-91, while India’s Koneru Humpy is trying to follow in her footsteps and is currently second in the world behind Hungarian Judit Polgar who is ranked 13th among GMs.
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She’ll make it one day.