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omen Grand Master Koneru Humpy was born in the year march 31st 1987 Gudivada Andhra Pradesh. She stared learned chess at the age of 5 from his father Ashok Koneru.
She won the U-8 national championship in 1995. After that her performance graph gets elevated by clinching U-10, U-12 and U-14 World championship titles. Humpy got her International Master title in the year 1999 at the age of 12 years. She got her Grand Master title at the age of 15 years.
Proud of the Nation
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 broken the world record set by Susan Polgar who had a rating of 2577 points while she was at the World No. 2 spot. 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.
Awards
Arjuna award 2003
Padma Shri award 2007
Raja-Lakshmi award 2008
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