Koneru Humpy career , biography , history

 Indian chess player Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is best known for taking home the FIDE Women's Rapid Chess Championship in 2019. At the age of 15 years, 1 month, and 27 days in 2002, she surpassed Judit Polgár's previous record to become the youngest woman to hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), a record that was later surpassed by Hou Yifan in 2008[2]. With an Elo rating of 2606 in October 2007, Humpy, the second female player after Polgár, surpassed the 2600 threshold.

At the World Youth Chess Championship in 1997 (under-10 girls' division), 1998 (under-12 girls' division), and 2000 (under-14 girls' division), Career Humpy took home three gold medals. She triumphed in the under-12 division of the Asian Youth Chess Championship in 1999, which was held in Ahmedabad and featured both boys and girls.[5] The World Junior Girls Championship was won by Humpy in 2001. She and Zhao Xue tied for first place in the following year's competition, but she came in second on the tiebreaker. In 2002, she rose to become the eighth female Grandmaster. In the 2004 World Junior Championship, which was won by Pentala Harikrishna and tied for fifth place, Humpy competed alongside the boys and placed tenth on countback with a score of 8.5/13 points.

In 2000 and 2002, Humpy took home the British Women's Championship. She won both the Indian Women's Championship and the 10th Asian Women's Individual Championship in 2003.[8][9] She won the North Urals Cup in 2005, a round-robin competition comprising ten of the top female players in the world at the time and held in Krasnoturyinsk, Russia.

She took part in the Women's World Chess Championship for the first time in 2004 and has since participated in each knockout-style event that has been held there. In 2004, 2008, and 2010, Humpy advanced to the semifinals.