‘Winning the World championship is my dream’
Principal Correspondent
HYDERABAD: World No. 2 Koneru Humpy has decided to compete in more men’s events in 2009 with the specific objective of breaking the ELO 2650 barrier (her current rating is ELO 2621) and for that she is also planning extensive preparations to master some of the complicated lines in the middle-game.
Talking to The Hindu during her visit to Hyderabad for the ONGC inter-active coaching camp, in which Super GM Krishnan Sasikiran, Sandeepan Chanda, Neelotpal Das and Konguvel are also involved, the 21-year-old Humpy said the semifinal defeat in the last World championship still haunts her as she had lost that contest from a seemingly comfortable position.
“I don’t think I had a moderate year in 2008 given the fact that I won a bronze in the World championship, helped my club Monaco finish second in the European Club championship, finished second after tying for the first place in the Mumbai International event and good rating points in the Spanish Ruy Lopez championship,” she said.
Consistent
About five years ago, Viswanathan Anand rated Humpy and Pentyala Harikrishna as the potential world champions. Does it hurt her that she is still to win the big title?
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She missed her chance.
She can start by changing her name from Humpy to something less provacative like Cuddly or even Spooning.
I think winning is in the name.
I wish Humpy all luck.It won’t be easy.
How can I reach Miss Koneru?
I could be a financial supporter for her .
I am seriusly offereing to help
her financially .
if you know her address
in India or her e mail
wrote me a capablancam@libero.it.
I would like to be a kind of
Hardy who helped Ramanujan,
onether indian genius .
“How can I reach Miss Koneru?
I could be a financial supporter for her.”
This is Slaonis latest attempt to harass a woman chess player.
Good move for Humpy to play in more open events, instead of just in only-women-allowed events.
Her chess skills will grow faster.
This does not preclude Humpy from entering the next Women’s World Chess Championship cycle/event.
Too bad the Women’s WCChamp process does Not include a 1-on-1 match between the current champ (presently Alexandra Kosteniuk) versus the top challenger.
Such matches produce more drama and prestige.