** EDS: Third -party images ** in this picture released by Fide, Indian chess players Divya Deshmukh, left and Koneru Humpy during Fide Women’s World Cup 2025 Final Match Tiebreaks, Batumi in Georgia. (Fide/Andrei Anosov via PTI Photo) (PTI07_28_2025_000347B) Nagpur: Twenty-three years after Humpy’s Grandmaster Koner, he became one of the youngest Indian-elements-to GMS in 2002, 38-year-olds wearing the Indian flag for more than two decades. At the World Women’s World Cup, Humpy secured a silver medal and also confirmed her second consecutive entry into the 2026 chess tournament.Although she went down to fight for wizer in a thrilling collision of the title, the double world champion Rapid is satisfied with her performance. “I did not expect that in this knockout tournament is considering because the format needs a lot of energy. I’m glad I was able to beat strong players,” Humpy Toi said. Humpy revealed the name of his coach (seconds in chess) and said, “I did well thanks to my second, Im Kushager Krishner, who worked hard with them without sleeves.” There are only four women between 88 Indian GMs. By winning the World Cup, Divya chose the shortest way to become GM. When 19 -year -old Wonder joined the elite club Humpy, D Harika and R Vaisali, young players will be motivated to pick up sport.
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Wonderful success means a lot for Indian women’s female chess, who was looking for a good successor to Humpy, who is not ready yet. Now India has two candidates, one of which will try to become Challenger world challenger in 2026.Humpy said, “We have a lot of players of a new generation and it’s a positive sign that we are growing in the right direction. I think we have to give young girls more training to further improve.”
