Women’s world rapid chess champion Koneru Humpy has been nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the All India Chess Federation (AICF).

Nominated Koneru Humpy For Khel Ratna Award, continues to hold the record of being ranked number one 16 times among girls in the world.

I think this victory will motivate many youngsters to take up Chess as a profession, said Koneru Humpy.

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Koneru Humpy, an inspiration for Indian women in sports, wins the Cairns Cup Chess Tournament. She had taken a maternity sabbatical and has achieved new heights since she is back.

While Nagpur’s Deshmukh has registered her first position, Mrudul Dehankar from the same city has jumped up to the third position in India’s U-16 girls’ category in Chess. The second position, following Divya, has been bagged by the chess player from Tamil Nadu, Rakshitta Ravi.

She won the World Women’s Rapid Championship on December 28, 2019. She is the second Indian to do so, the first one being Vishwanathan Anand.

The 32-year-old made a stunning comeback after taking a two-year sabbatical from 2016 to 2018 after she became a mother.

The 32-year-old made a stunning comeback after taking a two-year sabbatical from 2016 to 2018 after she became a mother.

In 2002, Koneru achieved the feat of becoming the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of grandmaster (not solely a Woman Grandmaster) at the age of 15 years, one month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgár’s previous mark by three months.