Hyderabad: The world Chess body FIDE has conferred the Grand Master title on India's Koneru Humpy, ahead of the second Chess World Cup to be played in October.

"The presidential board meeting of FIDE, which met on September 8 at Kremlin, Moscow, found her claim for the title as genuine and conferred the GM norm on her," FIDE vice-president P T Ummer Koya told reporters on Thursday.

The governing body had examined the ratings and category of the tournaments she played to log the required three GM norms to get the men's Grand Master and found that they were right and genuine, Koya said.

However, he was non-committal about the claim that Humpy was the youngest ever woman in the world to get men's GM norm surpassing the record of her idol Judith Polgar of Hungary.

"What I can only say at this stage is that Humpy is the youngest Grand Master of the country. Regarding world record, I have no comments to offer," he said.

Humpy's third GM norm at Hungary and her claim for being the youngest woman to acquire a full GM norm was shadowed in a controversy with some quarters expressing doubts over the level and category of tournaments she played.

Humpy broke into tears on seeing the cool reception she was accorded at the airport on arrival and her appointment with the Chief Minister being cancelled (which was later described as communication gap with organisers).

PTI