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GM Koneru Humpy won the 2024 FIDE Women's World Rapid Chess Championship, her second time winning the world-class event. The 37-year-old also finished ninth in the Swiss portion of the FIDE Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2024, just barely missing entry to the Knockout stage. Her achievement comes hot on the heels of other great Indian accomplishments in recent months.
Chess.com's India Content Lead CM Sahil Tickoo interviewed Humpy and discussed topics such as her performance at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz, the "golden era" for Indian chess, her father's great impact, as well as grandmaster secrets that can help other chess players improve.
You can watch the video below or you can scroll down and read the full transcript. Enjoy!
Sahil:
Humpy, ma'am, congratulations on winning gold at the World Rapid Chess Championship. It's such an honor to be on this call with you right now.
Humpy:
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure for me as well.
Sahil:
Ma'am, how was your experience playing in New York, so far away from home, so many time zones apart? How was the ov
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I didn’t want to quit like a loser: Koneru Humpy
Bengaluru: After a brutal, barren run for months, the newly-crowned women’s world rapid champion from India, 37-year-old Koneru Humpy, has reason to fall back in love with the grind. In an interview with HT, the world No.6 spoke about struggling with motivation, training without engines for the tournament and her seven-year-old daughter winning a gold medal the same day.
Excerpts:
It’s been an incredible second world rapid title for you. You started off by losing in the first round. How would you explain the remarkable turnaround?
For the past 8-9 months, whatever tournament I played in, was a failure. I was feeling very low and even considered quitting. Then I told myself that even if I quit, I should not quit like a loser. I wanted to prove what I could achieve. So, I was very ambitious before the tournament and trained hard for the entire month.
What is your approach to rapid chess, how much does the preparation differ? You seem to have developed a greater affinity for the shorter formats in recent years…
I’m ge
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Koneru, Humpy
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std 2523
rapid 2446
blitz 2418
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| World Rank | |
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| All players: | 651 |
| Active players: | 476 |
| National Rank IND | |
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| All players: | 37 |
| Active players: | 35 |
| Continent Rank Asia | |
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| All players: | 167 |
| Active players: | 108 |
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| Grandmaster (GM) | 2002 |
| Woman Grandmaster (WGM) | 2001 |
| Period | RTNG | GMS | RAPID RTNG | RAPID GMS | BLITZ RTNG | BLITZ GMS |
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| 2025-Feb | 2523 | 0 | 2446 | 0 | 2418 | 0 |
| 2025-Jan | 2523 | 0 | 2446 | 11 | 2418 | 11 |
| 2024-Dec | 2523 | 9 | 2431 | 9 | 2414 | 18 |
| 2024-Nov | 2530 | 0 |