I met her for the first time at the Calvia Olympiad where she played board 1 for the Indian Women’s Olympiad Team. She appeared bright, humble, sincere and very respectful toward other women’s chess legends such as Chiburdanidze, Xie Jun, etc. Her chess resume also speaks for itself.
She is very serious about chess and she is not caught up with other superficial stuff. She reminds me of my sisters and I when we were younger. Chess was the most important thing to us at that time and not glamour, fame or artificial hype. I expect her to be a future Women’s World Champion. I hope the chess world will know a lot more about her chess talent in the near future.
She has won three FIDE World Junior Championships
Her rating is now at 2540 and she’s currently ranked #4 in the world
First Indian female player to earn the Grandmaster title
First Indian girl to be ranked as World No. 1 in Top 20
First Indian girl to be ranked as World No. 16 in Top 50 Women list.
Only Indian girl to win the World Junior Girls Chess Championship.
India’s Youngest Woman Grand Master.
First indian Girl to win a World Title in Chess.
Hatrick Winner of U-10, U-12, U-14 World Chess Championships.
Youngest Outright Winner in Asian Junior Chess Championship.
Humpy is the youngest British Woman Chess Champion in the 61 Years History of British chess.
Only girl to win the U-12 Boys Asian Chess Championship.
Only girl to win the U-14 Boys National Title at Ahmedabad.
Asia’s Youngest Ineternational Woman Master.
(Info from her website)
Susan,
Good morning – would you mind filling me in on who is playing with you in the photo?
Sincerely,
Devin
Hi Devin,
Sorry the rest of the info did not come up fast enough. The way how this thing works is I have to post the photo and short caption first. Then I have to go back and add in the text. That is why text usually come a few minutes later 🙂
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
Hi Susan,
Thanks for putting articles on rising ches stalents from all over. It is great to know about them and I definitely think that Koneru will be going places soon.
This looks like an offhand game (the Olympiad game was Queen’s Pawn opening). Were you playing King’s Indian in the photo?
It started out like the Slav and it transposed into a type of Queen’s Gambit 🙂
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
Susan, From the long term perspective, What kind of strategic steps should Humpy take to move on to the next level, say the 2650 or 2700+ stuff
Keep focusing on her game and not be distracted with the superficial fame like some others. Expand her style. She is very positional now. She needs to learn to be more tactical / aggressive.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
The current Fide Championship is very similar to the Great Chess Tournament of AVRO 1938. There were 8 of the World’s top players and the tournament was organized in the same double round robin format. Rueben Fine’s start has been expressed in very similar fashion by Topalov. Fine’s perfomance in the 2nd cycle was something like a -1 and he tied (and lost on tiebreak) with Paul Keres. But there are contrast too. Topalov is much further ahead of the field than Fine was. And the difference between Topalov and the rest of the field is greater than Fine was with the rest of his field. These points suggest that Topalov will probably win. Hope springs eternal, and with reason, for participants who under-performed in the 1st cycle. Of note was Euwe’s 2-5 in the first cycle and reciprocal 5-2 in the second.
Young Indian Women are on a role – Humpy, Sania in Tennis… Good post.
Humpy has won 4 in a row in the 5th Asian Individual Championship being played in Hyderabad presently. Let us hope that she keeps it up. Great post!!
Susan,
It was nice to hear such praise towards Humpy from you. Can u also post the link to her website?
Yes, its realy nice to post about the upcoming young chess stars and appreciate their efforts.
Thanks Susan.