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Bibisara Assaubayeva caused a sensation astatine the World accelerated and blitz chess title successful Warsaw successful 2021. She won the blitz lawsuit and was the runner-up successful rapid. And she was conscionable 17 past and became the youngest women’s World blitz champion successful past and went connected to clasp her crown the pursuing year.
When she was the runner-up astatine the World accelerated title successful Alexandra Kosteniuk was the winner. It was aft watching the Russian getting awarded the trophy by the past FIDE president successful 2008 that a four-year-old Assaubayeva wanted to beryllium a World champion.
Ranked 11th successful the satellite astatine the moment, she is 1 of the astir breathtaking young talents successful women’s chess. In May this year, she became a Grandmaster – lone the 43rd pistillate to get that title, and archetypal since R. Vaishali got hers successful 2023.
“After yet getting that GM title, I felt truly good, arsenic yet I had nary pressure,” Assaubayeva told The Hindu. “I scored my archetypal GM norm erstwhile I was 17, past adjacent erstwhile I was 19, but the last 1 teased me, arsenic I missed aft coming close. Finally, I got the norm from Sharjah Masters, erstwhile I needed a gully successful the last round.”
After each that stress, she is gladsome that she is backmost playing astatine the Global Chess League, successful which this is her 2nd season. Like past twelvemonth successful London, she is playing for American Gambits.
“We person a bully team, possibly stronger than past year,” she said. “And we conscionable bask our chess and playing successful this league. And I consciousness each my teammates are bully people. And I find our Icon subordinate Hikaru Nakamura is not conscionable 1 of the world’s champion players, but is precise bully to speech to, arsenic well.”
Assaubayeva is gladsome that she is playing the GCL successful India. “Here we person a batch of fans, a batch of radical who similar chess, and it is amazing,” she said. “I person played successful India before, astatine the World inferior title successful Delhi successful 2019 and past the Olympiad successful Chennai successful 2022.”
(The writer is successful Mumbai astatine the invitation of Tech Mahindra).
