Indian chess Grand Master Humpy ranked World No 2

Women’s World Rapid Chess Champion and Indian chess Grand Master (GM) Koneru Humpy jumped to second spot leaving behind World Women’s Chess Champion Ju Wenjun in global chess body FIDE’s March month’s overall ranking.

Humpy won the prestigious Cairns Cup lastmonth.

   

Meanwhile Indian female chess players arekeeping the nation’s flag flying high with GM Harika Dronavalli maintaining herninth rank and in the girl’s section R. Vaishali moving up to ninth place from10th rank in February.

In the juniors section, Indian GM NihalSarin was ranked 10th in the world.

Incidentally, no Indian male figures in thetop ten in the world’s open section.FormerWorld Champion V. Anand was ranked 16th in the world, followed by Vidit SantoshGujarati at 22nd rank. Gujarati the second top most ranked player in Indiamoved up four places from the 26th rank last month.

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