Harika Dronavalli
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| Full name | Dronavalli Harika |
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| Country | India |
| Born | 12 January 1991 Gorantla, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2011) Woman Grand Master (2004) |
| FIDE rating | 2528 (September 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2542 (October 2014) |
| Medal record | ||
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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.[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
- ^ "Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011". Chess-Results.com. 2011-05-10. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ 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
- ^ IANS (2010-11-16). "Sport / Other Sports : Harika grabs chess bronze". The Hindu. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
- ^ Last Update: 05:23 PM IST. "Sport News India, Latest Sports News, Top Sports Stories". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Harika Dronavalli earns Grandmaster title in chess - Sport - DNA". Dnaindia.com. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
- ^ "Harika wins bronze in World Women's Chess Championship". PTI. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "World Women Chess: Harika wins silver, bronze for Humpy". PTI. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
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