Humpy Koneru

K. Humpy ( Koneru Humpy; born March 31, 1987 in Gudivada in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh ) is an Indian chess player.

Its original name is Hampi, her parents but later changed in Humpy. She learned to play chess at the age of five years by her father Ashok K., who later gave up his job as a chemistry teacher to devote himself entirely to the promotion of his daughter.

She won several youth world championship of girls in different age groups: 1997 (U10 in Cannes ), 1998 ( U12 in Oropesa del Mar), 2000 ( U14 in Oropesa del Mar) and 2001 World Junior Championships ( U20) Women in Athens. In 1999, she won in Sangli Commonwealth Cup Girls U18 and 2000 in Mumbai, the Junior Championship of Asia. 2000 and 2002, she won the Women's Championship in each of the UK, could also participate in the players from the Commonwealth.

The title of a woman grandmaster she received in 2001, the grandmaster title of Men 2002. Their first of three standards required for this item she had already achieved in June 2001 in a tournament victory in Budapest. At the Chess World Championship for Women in 2004 in Elista Humpy reached the semifinals.

In July 2005, she won the North Urals Cup, a heavily studded women's tournament in Krasnoturjinsk, in which they could be world champion Antoaneta Stefanova and Alexandra Kosteniuk European champion behind. In the Women's World Championship 2008 in Nalchik they failed in the semifinals after tie-break to Hou Yifan. In March 2009, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Istanbul with 8.5 points from 11 games.

K. Humpy was awarded the 2004 Arjuna Award in 2003. Her younger sister K. Chandra Hawsa (* 1988) is also chess player.