Anand Mahindra’s publish got here after Koneru Humpy was topped the 2024 FIDE Ladies’s World Fast Champion. Her historic win has impressed her followers.
Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy pulled off a sensational win in opposition to Irene Sukandar of Indonesia to win the FIDE Ladies’s World Fast Champion title. Congratulations have been pouring in on social media following her victory, and the most recent one got here from Anand Mahindra. In a particular publish, he praised Koneru.
Anand Mahindra’s publish for Koneru Humpy after her chess win has gone viral. (X/@NisithPramanik, PTI)
“An Indian Queen guidelines the board. Thanks Koneru Humpy for making us so proud. And for offering a successful and becoming finale to what has been a fully good yr for Indian chess!” the enterprise mogul wrote. He concluded his publish with clapping and Indian flag emoticons.
His publish got here as a response to a share by the Worldwide Chess Federation. “Humpy Koneru is the 2024 FIDE WOMEN’S WORLD RAPID CHAMPION!” the organisation wrote on X, together with an image of the winner.
Check out the publish:
Social media is overjoyed:
Folks posted congratulatory and praiseful posts on Anand Mahindra’s share. A person wrote, “Congratulations. effectively executed preserve going Humpy madam.” One other posted, “Congratulations. Properly executed.” A 3rd reacted with folded palms emoticons.
Koneru Humpy on her win:
I’m very excited and I really feel very blissful. In truth, I anticipated it to be a really robust day, like some form of tie-break. However after I completed the sport, I solely bought to know when the arbitrator informed me, and it was a tense second for me,” Humpy informed PTI.
“So, that is fairly surprising as a result of the entire yr I’ve been struggling rather a lot and I had very dangerous tournaments the place I simply ended up in final place. So, this got here as a shock,” she added.
Her achievement provides to the sensational yr for Indian chess. Only a few days earlier, D Gukesh bagged the title of youngest chess champion after defeating China’s Ding Liren.
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