Koneru Humpy, India’s No 1 feminine participant, to return to Norway Chess match
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Indian grandmaster Koneru Humpy will return to the Norway Chess girls’s match later this yr. The match will happen in Stavanger from 29 Could to six June.
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Koneru Humpy, India’s No 1 feminine chess, will compete on the 2025 Norway Chess Ladies’s match, marking her return to the competitors after a protracted absence. The match will happen in Stavanger, Norway, from 29 Could to six June. “It’s an honour to play within the prestigious Norway Chess Ladies match,” Humpy mentioned through a press launch.
Koneru Humpy’s achievements in chess
In 2002, Humpy grew to become the primary Indian lady to clinch the Grandmaster title and has set benchmarks in Indian chess. Humpy, ranked World No 6 in girls’s classical chess,
received the 2024 Ladies’s Speedy Chess Championship in December. That was her second Ladies’s Speedy Championship title, having received the 2019 version as nicely. Aside from these achievements, she was additionally named the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Yr in 2020.
She has additionally received gold medals on the Chess Olympiad, Asian Video games and the Asian Championships. Koneru Humpy can also be solely one among two girls to surpass the 2600 Elo ranking mark in girls’s chess, with the opposite being Hungary’s Judit Polgar.
Humpy, nevertheless, skipped the 2024 Chess Olympiad which was held in Budapest, Hungary, the place the India Open crew and the Ladies’s crew
received historic gold medals.
Kjell Madland, founder and director of Norway Chess, welcomed Humpy again to the match. “Humpy’s achievements converse volumes, and we’re delighted to welcome her again to Norway Chess Ladies 2025,” he mentioned.
