Harikrishna, Humpy conferred titles

CHENNAI, SEPT. 12. Andhra chess prodigies Pentyala Harikrishna and Koneru Humpy were conferred Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster titles by FIDE at the recently held FIDE Congress at Greece.

Giving this information today, Mr. P.T. Ummer Koya, Secretary of the AICF and Vice President of FIDE said ``they were awarded by the qualification commission without any delay at the earliest possible time.''

He said, the IWM title of Meenakshi Subbaraman of Indian Airlines, Chennai, IM titles of Sundararajan Kidambi of Chennai and Sriram Jha were also passed in the meeting which he attended in the last few days.

Mr. Koya also noted that 14-year-old Guntur girl Humpy would be given a men's IM norm for winning the World Junior. Since she has norms covering the required games from the Oakham Junior in England, Lipi International in Hungary and now the World Junior in Greece she qualifies to become the second Indian lady to become a men International Master after Vijayalakshmi.

- Our Chess Correspondent

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