Anish Giri | |
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 Giri in 2024 | |
| Born | Anish Kumar Giri 28 June 1994 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Russia (until 2009)[1] Netherlands (since 2009) |
| Title | Grandmaster (2009) |
| FIDE rating | 2733 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2798 (October 2015) |
| Ranking | No. 22 (November 2024) |
| Peak ranking | No. 3 (January 2016) |
Anish Kumar Giri (Nepali: अनीश कुमार गिरि; Russian: Анищ Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days.[2][3] Giri is a five-time Dutch champion (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2023) and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010. He has represented the Netherlands at seven Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024). He has also won major international tournaments, including the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament, 2017 Reykjavik Open, 2023 Tata Steel Chess, and shared 1st place in the 2015 London Chess Classic. In 2019 he won clear first at the Third Edition of the Shenzhen Masters.[4]
As of September 2023,[update] Anish Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in the Netherlands, having switched from Russia in 2009.[1] In 2021 Wijk aan Zee, Giri tied for first place with fellow Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but lost to him in the armageddon round after the two blitz games in the playoff ended in a draw. During the 2023 Tata Steel chess tournament, Giri edged out Nodirbek Abdusattorov on the last day to win the event, becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so.
- ^ a b "Player transfers in 2009". FIDE. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Anish Giri, 14, makes his final GM norm". Chessbase.com. 31 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
- ^ "NRN boy youngest grandmaster". MyRepublica.com. 1 February 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
- ^ "Giri wins "soft" Shenzhen Masters | chess24.com". 29 January 2023. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.