In January 2023, Koneru Humpy won India’s first-ever silver medal at the __________ held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- (a)World Correspondence Chess Championship
- (b)FIDE World Chess Championship
- (c)World Rapid Chess Championship
- (d)World Blitz Chess Championship
Answer
Why
Correct — D. The medal Koneru Humpy won at Almaty was in the World Blitz Chess Championship, the women's section, and it was India's first silver in that event.
FIDE crowns world champions at three time controls — classical, rapid and blitz — and the rapid and blitz titles are decided together at one meeting held at the end of the year.
That meeting was in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and it ran from 26 to 30 December 2022, so option (d) names the championship the stem is describing.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)World Correspondence Chess Championship — The World Correspondence Chess Championship is run by the ICCF and played by post or server over months at a time. It has no venue and no medal ceremony at Almaty.
- (b)FIDE World Chess Championship — The FIDE World Chess Championship is the classical title, settled in a head-to-head match between two players over many games — not a medal placing at a rapid-and-blitz meeting.
- (c)World Rapid Chess Championship — The World Rapid Chess Championship is the other half of the same Almaty meeting. Humpy is a world rapid champion, having taken that title at Moscow in December 2019, but the silver described here came in the blitz.
Concept
FIDE runs its World Rapid and Blitz Championships as a single combined meeting each December, with separate open and women's sections in both formats.
The formats differ only in the clock. Rapid allows a few minutes per player per game with an increment, blitz less still, and classical — the format of the world championship match — runs to hours.
Koneru Humpy, one of India's leading women players and a former world rapid champion, took silver in the women's blitz at the 2022 edition in Almaty.
The stem dates the event to January 2023. The Almaty meeting actually finished on 30 December 2022, and the January date is how the result was reported in the current-affairs digests SSC draws from.
Answer on the championship name, not on the month.
Key facts
- Koneru Humpy won silver in the women's section of the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship at Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- That FIDE World Rapid and Blitz meeting ran from 26 to 30 December 2022.
- Humpy had won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship at Moscow in December 2019.
- FIDE awards world titles at three time controls: classical, rapid and blitz.
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Common traps
- Marking the rapid championship because Humpy's best-known world title is the 2019 rapid gold.
- Trying to match the stem's January 2023 date to an event and abandoning the right answer.
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