Harika Dronavalli: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Indian chess player}}

{{Eastern name order|Dronavalli Harika}}

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| country    = [[India]]

| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1991|1|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = [[Gorantla, Guntur district|Gorantla]], [[Guntur district|Guntur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India

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| title       = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2011)

| peakrating = 2543 (November 2016)

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'''Harika Dronavalli''' (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian [[chess]] player who holds the [[FIDE title]] of [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the [[Women's World Chess Championship]], in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the [[Arjuna Award]] for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Harikarsquos-parents-on-cloud-nine/article15273259.ece |title=Harika's parents on cloud nine |work=The Hindu |access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref> In 2016, she won the [[FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16|FIDE Women's Grand Prix]] event at [[Chengdu]], China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. [[Vladimir Kramnik]], [[Judit Polgar]] and [[Viswanathan Anand]] are her chess inspirations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3a4j6Bx-78  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Q3a4j6Bx-78 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Olympiad Tromsø 2014 - A quick chat with Harika Dronavalli |last=PowerPlayChess |date=14 August 2014 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2019, she was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] for her contributions towards the field of sports.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jan/26/heres-the-complete-list-of-padma-awardees-2019-1930046.html |title=Here is the complete list of Padma awardees 2019- The New Indian Express<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=27 January 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126220722/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jan/26/heres-the-complete-list-of-padma-awardees-2019-1930046.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended [[Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer]] school<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/calculated-moves/article2318689.ece |title=Calculated moves |last=Subrahmanyam |first=V. V. |date=2011-08-03 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2019-05-31 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Harikarsquos-parents-on-cloud-nine/article15273259.ece |title=Harika's parents on cloud nine |date=2008-08-06 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2018-05-03 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> She started playing chess at a very young age and won a medal in the under-9 national championship. She followed it up with a silver medal in the world youth chess championship for under-10 girls. She subsequently became a student of coach NVS Ramaraju who refined her game. She became the second Indian woman to become a grandmaster, after [[Koneru Humpy]].

She married [[Hyderabad]]-based Karteek Chandra in August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/harika-dronavallis-wonderful-wedding|title = Harika Dronavalli's Wonderful Wedding}}</ref> Her elder sister, Anusha, married Telugu film director [[K. S. Ravindra]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jain |first=Rupam |date=7 June 2015 |title=I am uncool, but I'm cool with that: Dronavalli Harika |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/i-am-uncool-but-im-cool-with-that-dronavalli-harika/articleshow/47574020.cms |website=The Times of India}}</ref>

* Awarded [[Padma Sri]] on 26 January ([[Republic Day (India)|Republic Day]]).

* Bronze Medal at the Women's World Chess Championship, 10 February – 4 March, Tehran, Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=5015197 |title=Harika, Dronavalli FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers |last=Administrator |website=ratings.fide.com |access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/world-womens-chess-championship-harika-dronavalli-won-bronze-and-shockingly-india-didnt-even-cheer-3307646.html |title=World Women's Chess Championship: Harika Dronavalli won bronze and shockingly, India didn't even cheer |date=2017-02-28 |work=Firstpost |access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>

* 2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Hangzhou, China<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=61195 |title=2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament September 2011 China FIDE Chess Tournament report |last=Administrator |website=ratings.fide.com}}</ref> - scored 5.5/9 and secured her third GM [[Norm (chess)|norm]] (The GM title was conferred by the FIDE Congress 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=5015197&title=GM&pb=31 |title=FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO) |last=Administrator |website=ratings.fide.com}}</ref> 82nd in Kraków, Poland in October.)

* [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (GM) Title - Second Woman to Become Grandmaster in India.

* [[Woman Grandmaster]] (WGM) Title - Youngest Woman Grandmaster in Asian Continent.

* [[Woman International Master]] (WIM) Title - Youngest Woman International Master in Asian Continent.

* Featured by Verve magazine in 2017 amongst the top 40 popular women sportspersons of the year<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/mahindra-scorpio-toisa-harika-dronavalli-is-chess-player-of-the-year/articleshow/57737914.cms |title=Mahindra Scorpio TOISA: Harika Dronavalli is Chess Player of the Year |last=Alter |first=Jamie |date=20 March 2017 |work=The Times of India |access-date=26 August 2017}}</ref>

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* [https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=5015197 Harika Dronavalli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826165617/http://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=5015197 |date=26 August 2016 }} at Chess Database

 

| title = [[Asian Chess Championship#Women's winners|Women's Asian Chess Champion]]

| before = [[Atousa Pourkashiyan]]

| after  = [[Irine Kharisma Sukandar]]

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