Harika Dronavalli
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| Harika Dronavalli | |
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| Full name | Dronavalli Harika |
| Country | India |
| Born | 12 January 1991 Gorantla, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2011) Woman Grand Master (2004) |
| FIDE rating | 2515 (January 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2528 (October 2014) |
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Representing  India |
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| Women's World Chess Championship | ||
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Women's World Chess Championship 2015 (knock-out) | Individual |
| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | Women's Individual |
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
She gradually came to prominence winning the World Youth Chess Championship in the Girls' Under-14 and Under-18 categories. In 2011 she won the Asian Individual Women Chess Championship.[1] Her personal coach is N.V.S. Raju. Harika earned the Grandmaster title in July 2011. [2] Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar and Viswanathan Anand are her chess heroes.[3] She was a student of Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer, guntur, A.P
Achievements
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- She won the Commonwealth Women's Championship three times in 2006, 2007 and 2010.
- She has won three World Youth Chess Championship titles: in 2004, she won the Girls Under-14 in Heraklion, Greece, and in 2006, she won the Girls Under 18 in Batumi, Georgia.
- In 2008, she took the Girl's title at the World Junior Chess Championship at Gaziantep, Turkey, winning with a point to spare.[4]
- She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2007.
- She was the leading female of the Gibraltar Chess Festival's 2008 tournament.
- She won Bronze medal in 2010 Asian Games in Woman's individual rapid event.[5]
- She reached the quarter-finals of the Women's World Chess Championship 2010.[6]
- She became the second Indian woman (after Koneru Humpy) to achieve the title of Grandmaster at the men's level.[7]
- She reached the semi-finals of the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, but lost to Antoaneta Stefanova.
- She won bronze at the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 (knock-out). She made it up to the semi-finals, where she lost to Mariya Muzychuk, the eventual winner.[8]
- She won the individual silver at the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015 held at Chengdu, China. Despite Harika's silver and Humpy's bronze, India finished fourth in the competition - a point behind China, which bagged the bronze medal. [9]
References
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- Interview of Dronavalli Harika at Women's World Chess Championship 2010.
- Interview of Dronavalli Harika by Frederic Friedel, June 2015.
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- ↑ http://en.chessbase.com/post/harika-on-chess-life-and-more
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3a4j6Bx-78
- ↑ Harika Dronavalli player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- Chess grandmasters
- Chess woman grandmasters
- Indian chess players
- World Youth Chess Champions
- World Junior Chess Champions
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Asian Games medalists in chess
- Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
- People from Guntur district
- Recipients of the Arjuna Award
- Telugu people
- Sportswomen from Andhra Pradesh
- Sport in Guntur
