The game that won a 2.5 Lakh Jawa 42 Bobber Motorcycle!

It's the finals of the Global Chess League 2026. Grandmaster Koneiro Humpy is making her way to the playing hall. Her opponent is Tavrula Solakidou, uh, Greek number 1 and a strong chess player playing really well in this tournament. And let's go to the venue to hear the introductions of both the players.

Girls under 16 and under 18 world champion and women's Greek number one, Stavrula Solakidou. Two times world rapid champion, third highest rated women ever, first Indian women to achieve the title of grandmaster and Padma Shri, Hampi Koneeru.

And we already have a few moves on the board. Let's reach the live board position. It was a Bogo Indian with a5, and after takes, takes, b6, knight came to c3, and Humpy played queen f4. And when Stavrula played d5, Humpy took. Now knight takes d5, it's a nice position for white out of the opening. You simply take here, knight takes d Queen takes d5 is a natural move. And if you take on c7, that's a very risky move because knight d7 and rook c8 is coming. So Humpy plays rook c1. She puts pressure on c7 with the rook, and there's no real good way to save it. And Stavrula castles, which is the right move because She asks Humpy if she wants to take this pawn. It's risky. Humpy goes h4. Very interesting. She's trying to play on the kingside. h5, h6. Stavrula gets another piece out. Simple chess, nothing out of the extraordinary. Humpy now snatches the pawn. Now this is a big mistake because she takes this and absolutely forgets about the fact that after rook c8 She will be like super behind in development. She should have just simply played in this position a move like e3, but already it feels like let's say e3, there's queen a2 attacking here. So not so simple what Hampi should have done, but rook takes is very dangerous now. Stavrula takes her time and goes knight to f6. Maybe not the best move because rook c8 Was very powerful. I guess e4 could be the move you are afraid of, but there's queen a2, and you can't take here because of check, and it's already game over here. So she does go knight f6, and now Humpy can quickly try to hold here with e4 to open up the bishop, but she goes g4. So this is a very dangerous move. Now the thing is, Queen a2 once again very strong, giving up the bishop check. You know, king has to come up and then Queen b2. I don't even know where to go here. Queen b3, King d2, and then Knight d5, and already black is crushing it. So the best move is Queen a2 here. And Stavrula goes rook ac8, which is perhaps not the best because take, take, bishop g2. She takes, good move, takes. And now bishop g2 with the idea of short castling. That seems like the best. It's the all-important final, so you have to play this carefully. Both sides, a lot is at stake. Queen a2 played, but I think castling is fine because queen takes b2, you are going to lose material anyway. She does castle and Stavrula now can take queen takes b2. The e2 pawn is also hanging. Hampi goes knight to e5, trying to trade off the bishops here, hoping for g5 to put Pressure on f7. Stavrula takes, bishop g2, king g2. Black is a pawn up, but there are some issues. You know, the best move now is rook f8. Yes, great move by Stavrula. She finds it with the plan of g5. The knight can move. E2 pawn is hanging, so g5 played. But now knight takes, knight to d5. Yes, knight comes to d5, and Humpy plays— oh, she touches the queen but doesn't move it. She's a bit under pressure, 4 minutes on the clock. She goes queen g4. Can we pick up another pawn? Queen takes a3. She doesn't. She plays queen to d2, threatening check, picking up on f e2, and then d4 is also weak. e3 would be a huge mistake because of knight takes e3. The best move here is king h2 or king g1. She plays knight d3, which is also fine. And now b5, starting to push the queenside pawns. h5 played, pushing forward, humpy, wanting to create weaknesses with g6 or h6. And Stavrula goes further ahead, b4, ab, ab, And h6 seems like the best move, creating dark-squared weaknesses. She goes g6. Wow, that's a very brave move. I think the best response is f5. Fantastic chess. g takes h7, simply go King h8. She takes, King h8. And it's still complex, this position. Queen f3, keeping an eye on the e2 pawn. Can we push one step ahead? b3, but there's knight e5, knight g6 threatened, so I have to be careful. Stavrula plays rook to f6. Maybe I'm thinking now, Knight e5 is one move. There's Queen takes d4, so doesn't really work. Goes Rook a1. Wow, with the rook coming in, the knight jumping in, there could be an attack. b3 played. Wow, Humpy is back in the game. Rook a7. Is a very strong move. She plays it. b2 maybe, but then there's Rook b7. She does play b2. Humpty plays Queen g3 with the idea to threaten mate in one. Queen goes back to h6, and now taking here means Knight f4 check. Which is dangerous. So plays rook b7, the best move. f4. He has 1 minute 20 seconds. Stavrula has 2 minutes. The pressure is super high. Queen g4 seems like the right move here. She does. She plays queen f3. Stavrula goes for a check. King f1, but that's a mistake. She misses knight e3 check. Had to go king h2 or king h 3. Even King h1 was fine, but now Knight e3. How easy is it to spot the move? fe, fe, and you lose the queen. It's pretty tough, I believe. Is Tavrula thinking here? She has 1 minute 55 seconds. Check. If King e1, Queen a5 is a mate. Whoa, unbelievable! And she goes King h7 though. She doesn't find it. And white is still fighting queen g2. She goes queen e4 check. And now Humpey has 59 seconds. They have to make six more moves. One minute thirteen seconds for Stavrula. Rook takes b2. And Queen h5. Once again, Knight e3 check was in the air. King e1. Now White to play. King has gone to e1. Black, what to do? Both players have little time. The pressure is so intense. Can Stavrula find the move? She goes Knight c3, a strong move attacking the queen. 2 decent moves: Queen takes e6, Queen c6. I mean, you want to keep an eye on h1. Takes on e6, good move. Humpy matching her opponent move per move. Queen h1, king comes up. Rook f6, the only move, otherwise the knight and rook both are hanging. Rook f6 played by Stavrula. She has 18 seconds, but they have moved— reached move 38. Humpy goes Queen e5, Knight e4, King c2. Seems like White is winning here now. I mean In terms of the fight back, it's an equal position, but it does feel like white's chances are better. Knight c5 played, and she takes. But now white is better here. Queen h6. She gets to move forty. Now two seconds increment per move. White is totally winning. Queen f5 check. She goes rook b7, which is also fine. And now Stavrula Solakidou. Goes Queen g6, King b2, Rook e6 played, and Queen to c3. She blunders here, Humpy, and gets into big trouble. King a4, Queen a6, and she's going to lose the rook and resigns there. Very difficult in the end, but that was what it is. Stavrula scored the win for her team. Humpy resigns. Rook b7, queen g6 check. It was a blunder to go to b2. King c3 was winning, king d2 was fine, but the moment you went here, Stavroula found this amazing resource, rook e6. And now the e2 pawn cannot be defended. That was too brutal for Humpy because now here, and this is over.

Check.

Also notice how after rook e6, if you play rook g7, Queen g7 pins the queen here, which is a problem, and that's the reason why Stavrula won. And now she has all the fans here in the playing venue, and she also won the player of the tournament, for which she received this bike.