Koneru Humpy in comparison with chess legend Judith Polgar by World No. 3, who as soon as accused Indian GM Arjun of dishonest
First it was D Gukesh, who turned the world chess champion, and now it’s Koneru Humpy, who added to the checklist of chess laurels for India in 2024. Humpy clinched a historic second world title in fast chess, profitable the year-ended World Fast Chess Championship by defeating Indonesia’s Irene Sukandar.
Humpy gained her first World Fast title in 2019 in Georgia, and is now the second participant to bag a number of championships on this format. The opposite participant is China’s Ju Wenjun.
The 37-year-old’s sensational victory despatched chess followers right into a state of meltdown, and he or she additionally obtained tributes from Gukesh and PM Narendra Modi on social media. In the meantime, World No. 3 chess star Hikaru Nakamura, thought of to be top-of-the-line within the Fast and Blitz format, hailed the Indian Grandmaster’s domination within the sport.
Koneru Humpy in comparison with chess legends
The American Grandmaster additionally went on to match her to Judith Polgar and Hu Yifan. Talking on Magnus Carlsen co-owned Take Take Take chess YouTube channel, he stated, “Humpy is a participant who’s been 2600 for a lot of, a few years, I believe, for a very long time. She was in all probability the clear quantity three behind Judith and Hu Yifan. So, it’s nice to see her taking part in so effectively, assuming that’s adequate to win. I believe it’s implausible.”
“After all, the Indians will probably be celebrating as soon as once more, like they’ve lots not too long ago.
“I believe that it’s actually nice to see is while you have a look at chess, I believe the Indian mannequin proper now could be very clearly the very best.”
In 2002, Humpy turned the youngest lady to ever obtain the title of Grandmaster aged 15 years, one month and 27 days. The report has solely been surpassed by Yifan. She can also be India’s first feminine grandmaster, and is a gold medalist on the Olympiad, Asian Video games and Asian C’ship. The veteran can also be a World C’ship runner-up.
Nakamura, who hasn’t been at his greatest in New York, lauded the event of chess in India, and identified the large quantity of sponsorships concerned. “You will have all these gamers who’ve critical help behind them. I imply, you will have Arjun, for instance, who, I believe, I imply, his sponsorship is public with Quantbox. I believe he’s getting 300,000 {Dollars} a 12 months sponsorship.”
“I imply, I do know Pragg, I imply, Vidit, you already know, Gukesh, all of them have very critical sponsorships.”
Explaining how the monetary construction in chess for Indian grandmasters was totally different than gamers belonging to different nations, he hailed the native governments. “Once you’re in that state of affairs and whether or not it’s the Chess Federation and even the native governments which are taking good care of you, it’s very simple to play chess for the love of the sport and to deal with it versus a state of affairs the place, sadly, many, many gamers who make it into the Grand Chess Tour, they’re merely attempting to earn a dwelling,” he stated.
Amongst Indian chess followers, Nakamura is understood to have accused Arjun Erigaisi of dishonest, with none proof, through direct messages. In an interview with The Indian Specific, Indian Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan revealed, “Hikaru used to accuse Arjun of dishonest. This was two or three years again. He was fairly confrontative about it. Arjun felt unhappy about it, that somebody he seemed as much as as a chess participant was accusing him simply because he was taking part in effectively.”
