Chess World Cup | Humpy bats for womens chess to take inspiration from womens cricket

Koneru Humpy feels ladies’s chess may take a cue from ladies’s cricket. After making the inaugural ceremonial transfer of the second recreation of the fifth spherical of the chess World Cup at Resort Rio, she identified how little assist ladies’s cricket had earlier.

“People had been even criticising the feminine cricketers,” mentioned the World speedy chess champion. “Now they’ve received the World Cup and folks have began appreciating them, and they’re getting recognition. I believe it’s the identical case in ladies’s chess. It can be rising slowly.”

She mentioned Goa was the appropriate venue for the World Cup. “We have already seen gamers developing from the southern a part of India,” the World No. 6 mentioned.

“Tamil Nadu is the hub for chess in India now. And we’ve a number of Grandmasters from Andhra as nicely, and Maharashtra, too. Goa is a spot the place we’ve seen only a few gamers developing on the nationwide or worldwide stage. This is a good alternative for this area to see all these prime gamers. That ought to encourage gamers from right here to take up the game professionally.”

Humpy hoped the 2 Indians in competition on the World Cup, Arjun Erigaisi and P. Harikrishna, would go far. “Hari and I had began on the identical time,” she mentioned. “And we’ve recognized one another for such an extended interval. And he has been working as a second and is into many issues, so being profitable as a participant once more is nice, I believe. And it’s an inspiration to many gamers as nicely.”

Humpy, who had misplaced the ladies’s World Cup closing to Divya Deshmukh, is on a break from chess in the intervening time. Her subsequent occasion would be the Global Chess League in Mumbai subsequent month. After that, she is going to defend her World speedy title in Doha.