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Humpy Koneru

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Koneru Humpy (Telugu: కోనేరు హంపి; born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Humpy is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002, she became the youngest female player—and the first Indian female player—to achieve the title of Grandmaster, aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record only since surpassed by Hou Yifan. Humpy is a gold medalist at the Olympiad, Asian Games, and Asian Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2024). Humpy Koneru is the 129th most popular chess player (up from 378th in 2024), the 605th most popular biography from India (up from 1,447th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Humpy Koneru ranks 129 out of 461. Before her are Fred Yates, Leonid Stein, Sonja Graf, Genrikh Kasparyan, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. After her are Boris Gelfand, András Adorján, Ernst Falkbeer, Miroslav Filip, Wolfgang Unzicker, and Vladimir Bagirov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Humpy Koneru ranks 60. Before her are Lee Seung-gi, Blaise Matuidi, Mikkel Hansen, Iago Aspas, Marouane Fellaini, and AJ Lee. After her are Samantha Akkineni, Han Hyo-joo, Luiz Gustavo, Davide Astori, Becky Lynch, and Martín Cáceres.

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In India

Among people born in India, Humpy Koneru ranks 605 out of 1,861. Before her are Azim Premji (1945), Harihara I (1336), Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Om Puri (1950), Barry Hay (1948), and Padma Bandopadhyay (1944). After her are Samantha Akkineni (1987), Brian Horrocks (1895), Nayanthara (1984), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Roshan Seth (1942).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Humpy Koneru ranks 2. Before her are Viswanathan Anand (1969). After her are Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2005), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Vidit Gujrathi (1994), R Vaishali (2001), Gukesh D (2006), Tania Sachdev (1986), Krishnan Sasikiran (1981), Yuzvendra Chahal (1990), and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979).

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