Portal:Chess/Did you know/38

...that Indian Koneru Humpy (pictured), the youngest-ever female Grandmaster, was given the forename Hampi at her birth but was subsequently given the more Russian-sounding name Humpy by her father?
...that because its sponsor and organizer, Luis Rentero, is a strong opponent of short draws, the Linares-Morelia chess tournament employs a nontraditional tiebreaker, awarding places on the basis of total wins?
...that undermining is a chess tactic in which a defensive piece is captured, leaving an opponent's piece undefended or underdefended and obliging the opponent, usually to his detriment, to choose between recapturing or saving the underdefended piece?

...that Swiss Grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi won four Soviet Union national championships, two Candidates tournaments, and six Chess Olympiad team gold medals and qualified twice to play for the world championship but never earned the world title, having fallen by a combined twelve games to seven to Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov?