K. Humpy

K. Humpy (January 2006)
Surname	Koneru Humpy
Association	India
Born	March 31, 1987 Gudivada at Vijayawada
title	Women's Grand Master (2001) Grand Master (2002)
Current  Elo rating	2586 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2623 (July 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

K. Humpy ( Koneru Humpy ; born March 31, 1987 in Gudivada near Vijayawada , Andhra Pradesh ) is an Indian chess player .

Life

Her original name is Hampi , but her parents later changed it to Humpy . She learned to play chess at the age of five from her father, K. Ashok, who later gave up his job as a chemistry teacher to devote himself entirely to promoting his daughter. Her younger sister K. Chandra Hawsa (born 1988) is also a chess player, who achieved her highest Elo rating of 2305 in April 2005, but has not played a rated game since November 2005.

Prizes and awards

She won several youth world championship titles for girls in different age groups: 1997 (U10 in Cannes ), 1998 (U12 in Oropesa del Mar ), 2000 (U14 in Oropesa del Mar) and the 2001 women's junior world championship (U20) in Athens . In 1999 she won the U18 Commonwealth of Girls in Sangli and the Asian Junior Championship in Mumbai in 2000 . In 2000 and 2002 she won the Women's Championship in Great Britain , in which players from the Commonwealth could also take part.

She received the title of women's grandmaster (WGM) in 2001 and the title of grandmaster (GM) in 2002. She had already achieved her first of three required standards for this title in June 2001 when she won a tournament at First Saturday in Budapest . At the 2004 Women's World Chess Championship in Elista , Humpy reached the semi-finals.

K. Humpy was awarded the Arjuna Award 2003 in 2004.

In July 2005 she won the North Ural Cup, a strong women's tournament in Krasnoturjinsk , in which she was able to leave world champion Antoaneta Stefanova and European champion Alexandra Kostenjuk behind. At the 2008 Women's World Cup in Nalchik , she failed in the semifinals after a tie-break to Hou Yifan . In March 2009 she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Istanbul with 8.5 points from 11 games.

In the tournament series FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012, she finished second behind the reigning world champion Hou Yifan. If Hou Yifan's title had been successfully defended at the 2012 Women's World Chess Championship , Humpy would have challenged the duel for the 2013 female world championship . However, since Hou Yifan lost the title to Anna Uschenina , the Chinese became a challenger herself as the Grand Prix winner.

In February 2015, she took third place in the women's world rankings. After Judit Polgár , Humpy is the second woman ever to achieve an Elo rating of over 2600 points.

In December 2019 she became world champion in rapid chess . With Black in a won position in the Armageddon of the tie-break, she scored a draw by repeating moves three times against the Chinese grandmaster Tingjie Lei . After round 12 of the regular tournament, she was tied with the Chinese with 9 out of 12. In February 2020 she won the Cairns Cup in St. Louis with six points from nine games in front of the reigning world champion Ju Wenjun .

National team

Humpy participated with the Indian national women's team in the 2004 and 2006 Chess Olympiads and the 2011 and 2015 World Team Championships. In 2011 she achieved the best individual result on the top board and at the same time the best rating of all participants, in 2015 the third best result on the first board. With the Indian national team, she took part in the 2003 Asian Team Championship and the chess competitions of the 2006 Asian Games and the 2007 Asian Indoor Games.

societies

In the Chinese team championship, K. Humpy played at Hebei Steel Circle in 2008 , at Master Tianjin Nankai University in 2013 and at Chengdu Beilei Youth Chess Club in 2019 . At the European Club Cup Women took six times with CE Monte Carlo and won the competition in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. In the individual competition, she reached in 2007, 2009 and 2010 on the first, 2012 and 2013 on the second board the best result .

Web links

Commons : K. Humpy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by K. Humpy on chessgames.com (English)
• 20 game positions (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Humpy's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ K. Humpy's results at the women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ K. Humpy's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ K. Humpy's results at the Asian Games ( Memento from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ K. Humpy's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ K. Humpy's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)