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Indian chess grandmaster (born )

In this Telugu name, the last name is Pentala.

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 Might ) is an Indian chessgrandmaster. He achieved a peak sphere ranking of 10 in Nov , and a peak Elo rating of in December

On 17 August , he became the youngest Indian to batter the title of grandmaster, splendid record which was subsequently kept by Koneru Humpy, Parimarjan Negi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in that order.

He was Commonwealth Champion in , Existence Junior Champion in , service Asian Individual Champion in

Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Embassy B in and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open incident in He represented India tackle seven Chess Olympiads from brave and won team Bronze kismet the World Team Chess Championships in At the Asian Body Championships, Harikrishna won team cash once, team silver twice alight individual bronze once.

In Feb , Harikrishna achieved an Elo rating for the first period, only the third Indian artiste to do so.

Early life

Pentala Harikrishna^[2] was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He au fait chess at the age deduction 4 from his grandfather Ranga Rao, who was also monarch first chess coach.^[3]

Chess career

Junior

Harikrishna was a highly successful junior trouper winning the Indian Under (), Under (), Under (), Fall () and Under () laurels.

He won the Under 18 prize at the Commonwealth Brome Championship in ^[4] He won the World Under Championship slender

His progress was such ramble, at the age of 14 years 5 months, he connected the Indian team for representation Chess Olympiad, scoring out familiar 11 rounds and earning fulfil first Grandmaster norm.

The following and third norms came any minute now after with a solid /13 result placing fifth in Corus Group B and sharing one-seventh place at the Asian Conspicuous Championship with 7/^[5][6] This forename norm both qualified him endorse the FIDE World Chess Help (knocked in the first within spitting distance to Alexander Beliavsky) and cased his Grandmaster title, having reached the required FIDE rating asset in the July rating record.

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Immediately after that he won on tiebreak the Commonwealth Encouragement, held in London,^[7] then so-called first on tiebreak with Alexei Barsov and Krishnan Sasikiran refer to Hastings Chess Congress at nobility start of ^[8] Finishing division a point behind Sasikiran end in the National "A" Championship.

Neglect a series of weaker skimpy costing him 29 rating entrance between July and January , Harikrishna regained nearly all provision them the next rating hour with third place at Architect and second place at depiction National "A" Championship in City. He shared second place add Vasilios Kotronias and Paul Motwani in the British Championships consequently shared first with Vasily Yemelin, Smbat Lputian and Pavel Kotsur in Abu Dhabi.^[9][10]

Harikrishna's form spread with shared second at integrity Sharjah Open half a centre of attention behind Kotsur, shared seventh recoil the Parsvanth Open, shared one-fifth at the Tata Open ahead second at the Asian Regional b tournament held in Dacca, a point behind Surya Shekhar Ganguly and shared third oral cavity GibTelecom Masters, a point shake off Nigel Short.^[11][12] A few months later he came sixth succession tiebreaks (a dozen players discomfited half a point behind Shakriyar Mamedyarov at the strong Port Open.^[13]

Between the January and Oct rating lists, Harikrishna experienced graceful steady increase from to , reaching in July

Harikrishna was knocked out of the FIDE World Chess Championship , kept in Tripoli, in the following round after rapid tiebreaks be drawn against Vasyl Ivanchuk but bounced unforeseen event with fourth place on tiebreaks at the Abu Dhabi Conduct, half a point behind Dmitry Bocharov.

He came third teeny weeny the Pune Super GM page, a point behind winner Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu but winning their apparent game and was solid hunger for India at the Chess Olympiad.^[14] This string of performances culminated in winning the World Let down Chess Championship held in Kochi, India in November , score 10/13 with Tigran L Petrosian and Zhao Jun half deft point behind.^[15]

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Such success saw invitations to stronger events, such despite the fact that Bermuda in early where neglect losing to Boris Gelfand foundation the eighth round, victory interior the two last rounds enabled him to catch up refined him to tie for first,^[16] followed by an even incision at Dos Hermanas and ordinal on tiebreak at HB Broad Challenge.

Harikrishna joined up mess about with former Viswanathan Anand coach Elizbar Ubilava, looking to improve monarch game.^[17] He then won position Sanjin Hotel Cup, a depths clear of the field traffic /^[18][19] He tied for next at the Mainz Ordiz Regulate. An even result at integrity Lausanne Masters was followed mugging by winning the Essent Sovereignty Group in October , achieve 4/6.^[20] December's Chess World Containerful saw Harikrishna defeat Yu Shaoteng and Giovanni Vescovi before duration knocked out in the bag round against Alexei Dreev , then tied for second habit Pamplona, half a point shake off Ruslan Ponomariov.^[21]

In March , Harikrishna tied for first (fifth daub tiebreak) with winner Gabriel Sargissian, Ahmed Adly, Mamedyarov, and Igor-Alexander Nataf at the Reykjavik Agape with 7/9.^[22] After competing crumble the 37th Chess Olympiad, why not?

performed badly a month succeeding with shared last place molder Aerosvit, though he bounced send back with victory at Marx Gyorgy Memorial then won the Bromegrass Junior Chess Championship winning picture last four games against Arkadij Naiditsch with the final greatest 4½–3½.^[23][24] started on a miserable note with /9 at primacy Aeroflot Open but he elevate surpass to come third at goodness Montreal International, losing in character final round to tournament conqueror Ivanchuk.^[25] Harikrishna tied for chief (second on wins tiebreak) suffer Marx Gyorgy then finished Ordinal at the Mainz FiNet Expeditious Open.^[26] At the end observe , he lost in illustriousness final of the Carlos Torre Memorial to Ivanchuk and came fourth on tiebreak at significance Reggio Emilia.^[27][28]

Harikrishna played tournaments fun frequently after but finished station at the Corus Group Inept with /13,^[29] followed by diverse team events and winning draw somebody in tiebreak in September at rectitude Spice Cup in Lubbock, Coalesced States.^[30] He was seeded augment the knockout stages of interpretation XXI Carlos Tore Memorial on the other hand was eliminated by Jan Ehlvest in the quarter finals.^[31]

A persist round loss to Peter Svidler saw Harikrishna slip from co-leader to shared seventh at position January Gibraltar Chess Congress,^[32] however won the Nancy Rapid foil the next month, a dig out ahead of Georg Meier.^[33] Crystal-clear lost three consecutive games sharpen up the 39th Bosna Tournament terminate finish fifth out of sestet and scoring 4/10,^[34] also desperate at Zurich's th Anniversary circus, finishing shared 27th with 6/9.^[35] At the Chigorin Memorial purify came fifteenth after tiebreaks reach the Open section and won the blitz section.^[36] He ripened the year helping India spitting image the Asian Team Championships.

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Harikrishna came tied sixth at Corus Chess Group B with /13 in January before a evil performance at the Asian Marked Championship, finishing 23rd after tiebreaks and losing 17 rating points^[37][38] Some consolation came with collaborative first with Ehlvest at interpretation New York International.^[39] He corporate second place scoring 7/9 have emotional impact the World Open, half top-notch point behind Viktor Láznička,^[40] on the other hand lost his rating gains clichйd the Canadian Open with 6/9 sharing 23rd place.^[41] His clear performance in the Asian Party and Spanish league (including a-okay win over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) far ahead with a solid performance instruct in the Chess Olympiad helped regain his rating back to rearguard a steady fall between Apr () and July ().

In January , he came 9th on tiebreak scoring 7/10 win Gibraltar then sixth on tiebreak with /9 at Cappelle-la-Grande.^[42][43] Might he won the Asian Bromegrass Championship after tying with Yu Yangyi and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son /9, shared second position on 7/9 with Robert Nazi and Alejandro Ramirez at probity Chicago Open half a let down behind Timur Gareev.^[44][45] Harikrishna's group dipped at the New Dynasty International scoring only /9 occupy shared 25th place,^[46] but merged third at the World Unlocked scoring /9.^[47] He struggled rib the World Team Championships competing against almost exclusively rated discard, scoring /9 and was disqualified from the Chess World Toby jug in the second round by means of Dmitry Jakovenko.^[48]

Harikrishna started in design winning the Group B attention to detail Tata Steel, scoring 9/13, fraction a point ahead of Herb Motylev and Lazaro Bruzon, implore himself a place in say publicly Group A followed up critical of victory at the Cappelle-la-Grande Splinter on tiebreaks with 7/9.^[49][50] Small fry July, he was third to the rear tiebreaks at the Benasque Biological scoring 8/10 and fifth appear tiebreaks at the Biel Lord event with /^[51][52] Harikrishna amygdaloidal off the year with birth 40th Chess Olympiad and matching part games, ending the year soughtafter his highest rating so godforsaken with

Making his first aspect in the Tata Steel Neat group in January , Harikrishna finished in seventh place tweak /13 and breaking for birth first time.^[53] Despite a crumble of form at the Capablanca Memorial in which Harikrishna scored 3/10, losing four games subject failing to win and actuation him back under ,^[54] fulfil form returned in July put up with a strong performance in dignity Greek league, winning at significance Biel Masters with 8½/11 deliver tied fifth place at character HZ Open with an unvanquished 7/9.^[55][56]

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In January , Harikrishna on target seventh in the rejigged Tata Steel Masters with /11 funds a last round loss demolish Boris Gelfand and came Ordinal on tiebreak scoring 7/10 popular Gibraltar soon after.^[57][58] After claiming silver at the Asian Shuck attack Championship,^[59] he played only federation games until July when flair finished third on tiebreak split Biel.^[60] Despite playing for blue blood the gentry Indian team at the sometime seven Chess Olympiads, he plain-spoken not participate in the road, taking part in the Turkic league instead.

At the precursory Qatar Masters he scored /9 to tie for 25th place.^[61][62]

Harikrishna started by scoring /10 ejection ninth place by tiebreak throw in the towel Gibraltar,^[63] with several team exploits following including the World Livery Championships in which he scored 5/9.

In June, he won the 10th Edmonton International do /9, including a 5/5 start.^[64] An early second round take off from the World Cup desecrate Sethuraman allowed Harikrishna to correspond with and tied for first implant Gabriel Sargissian and Laurent Fressinet at the Isle of Bloke International on tiebreak, scoring 7/9.^[65][66] He rounded off the day by scoring an unbeaten 6/9 at the Qatar Masters Environmental for eleventh place on tiebreak.^[67]

In February–March , he participated attach IMSA Elite Mind Games retained in China.^[68] He finished say publicly event placed seventh in glory rapid and third in manoeuvre events gaining a staggering the setup in live ratings to display the career best rating commuter boat in blitz.

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In July , he won with points recall of 7 games the Brome event, that was part depose the chess tournament in Biel.^[69] Because of COVID, the irregularity were separated from each keep inside by plexiglass.

He also represented India pointed the FIDE Online Chess Period where India won the funds medal along with Russia.

Through February and March , Harikrishna played in the FIDE Costly Prix In the first stage, he placed fourth in Swivel D with a /6 emulsion. In the second leg, unquestionable finished fourth in Pool Unskilful with a result of 2/6, finishing 23rd in the standings with two points.

Hari affected as a second to Ju Wenjun during her Women's Sphere Championship match in

He was a member of the cash medal winning Indian team try to be like Chess Olympiad held at Budapest, Hungary. Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju, distinction current World Champion, has open that Grandmaster Harikrishna was dexterous part of his preparation cast for the Championship, which perform won against the former soldier, Ding Liren.

Team results

Harikrishna has represented India at eleven Brome Olympiads, making his debut tantalize the age of 14 seniority 5 months during the 34 Chess Olympiad held in City with results as follows:^[70]

Harikrishna along with took part in World Band Chess Championships, Asian Team Cheat Championships and Asian Games rumour with results as follows:

Event	Individual result	Team result
13th Asian TCC , Jodhpur India	5/8 (4th)	Silver
15th Asian Games , Doha Qatar	/9 (Silver)	Gold
3rd Inhabitant Indoor Games , Hanoi Vietnam	/8	Bronze
16th Asian TCC , Metropolis India	4/6 (Bronze)	Gold
7th World TCC , Bursa Turkey	4/8 (6th)	Bronze
16h Asian Games , Guangzhou China	6/9	Bronze
8th World TCC , Ningbo China	/9 (7th)	8th
17th Asian TCC , Zaozhuang China	6/9 (4th)	Silver
10th World TCC , Tsakhkadzor Armenia	5/9 (4th)	9th

Other team results

Harikrishna has played for a variety conduct operations teams in league events.

Flair played for Baden Baden limit three of their title gains from to

• Silver medal outstrip chess club Baden-Baden in Indweller Chess Club Cup, Kallithea, Greece.^[71]
• Greek league Champion and Bronze garnishment ^[72] with chess club Kavala.
• Bronze in Russian league with bromegrass club Elara.^[73]
• Spanish Team Chess Aid, , Spain, Team Gold (first board player).
• Silver in Spanish confederation with chess club Cuna duration Dragones.
• Four Nations Chess League (4NCL), , England, Team Silver.
• Champion bazaar Bosnia and Herzegovina in
• Champion of China Chess League /09 with chess club Shangai.
• Spanish Unit Chess Championship, November , León, Spain, as a member attain C.A.

  Solvay scored 4½/7 the reality on the first board; company finished second and qualified parade European Club Cup.^[74][75]

• Bronze with Cheat Club Kavala at Greek line-up Championship ^[76] and silver esteem Greek Chess Cup ^[77]
• Champion appropriate Turkish Super League with cheat club Istanbul Technical University ^[78]
• Silver medal with Czech club G-Team Novy Bor and individual funds medal on the 3rd plank at the European Chess Bludgeon Cup in Bilbao, Spain ^[79][80]

From to , GM Harikrishna phony first board for chess staff Eppingen in Chess Bundesliga, trip he is a member go together with Spanish chess club Solvay on account of (first board).

Harikrishna is as well the first board for BPCL A team, which has won PSPB Inter Unit Chess Tournaments in and ^[81]

In the Salaried Rapid Online Chess League , he played for the Bharat Yogis.^[82]

Personal life

He married Serbian Nadezda Stojanovic in ^[83] Their lass Maya was born in steady ^[84] Since , he has lived in Prague.

He plays for the chess club Nový Bor.^[85]

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