Anish Giri

Anish Giri in 2013
Association	Russia (until 2009) Netherlands (since 2009)
Born	June 28, 1994 Saint Petersburg
title	FIDE Master (2008) Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating	2764 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2798 (Oct. 2015 and Jan. 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Anish Kumar Giri ( Russian Аниш Кумар Гири ; born June 28, 1994 in Saint Petersburg ) is a chess grandmaster of Russian- Nepalese origin who plays for the Netherlands .

family

Anish Giri is the son of a Nepalese hydrologist , his mother is of Russian descent. He grew up in Saint Petersburg . In 2002, his family moved with him to Japan for work . After briefly returning to Russia, the family has lived in the Netherlands since the beginning of 2008 , after his father accepted a job at a research institute near Delft . Anish Giri has been married to the Georgian chess master Sopiko Guramishvili (she has the titles WGM and IM ) since July 2015 . The couple has had a son since October 2016. Giri speaks Russian , English and Dutch and has a knowledge of Nepalese and Japanese .

Chess career

Anish Giri learned to play chess at the age of seven. In Japan he did not have the opportunity to train with strong players and increased his skill level by studying books and playing on the Internet . His first success was winning the U9 championship on the island of Hokkaidō . In 2006 he became the Russian U12 champion. He also finished fourth at the U12 European Youth Championship .

Giri earned his first grandmaster norm at an open in Hilversum in April 2008, which he won. The second standard followed at the end of 2008 at the Chess Festival in Groningen. The third and last norm he achieved in February 2009 in group C of the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee . At that time he was 14 years, seven months and two days old, making him the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time. In September 2009 he won the Dutch individual championship in Haaksbergen . In January 2010 he won the B group of the Corus chess tournament with nine points from 13 games. In 2011 he was able to win the state championship again in Boxtel . In January 2012 Giri won the 54th Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia ( category 20) with six points from ten games. After a weak start with 1 out of 4, he turned up in the second half of the tournament and won the tournament ahead of Alexander Morosewitsch and Hikaru Nakamura .

At the age of 18, Giri was the youngest player among the top 100 in the world rankings (as of October 2012).

Elo development

National team

Giri plays since 2010 in the Dutch national team and has since been at the Chess Olympiads in 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 , and 2018 of the World Team Championship in 2013 and the European Team Championships in 2011 participated in 2013, 2015 and 2017th When he first participated in the Olympics in 2010, he achieved the third-best individual record on the fourth board, and in 2018 Giri achieved the same success on the top board.

societies

Giri played in the Dutch Meester class from 2008 to 2010 and in the 2011/12 season for HMC Calder , in the 2010/11 season for the master Hilversums Schaakgenootschap and since 2012 for En Passant Bunschoten-Spakenburg , with whom he was Dutch in 2013 and 2014 Team champion was. In the German Federal Chess League he played for SK Turm Emsdetten from 2008 to 2015 . Giri has been registered for the Solingen chess company since the 2015/16 season , for which he was used four times in the 2016/17 season. In France he played from 2009 to 2012 for the team of L'Echiquier Chalonnais , with whom he became champions in 2010 ; since the 2014/15 season he has been playing for Bischwiller , with whom he became champions in 2015. Giri won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2014 with Guildford A&DC , the Russian team championship in 2011 with SchSM-64 Moscow and 2017 with Siberia Novosibirsk . In the Belgian Interclubs he played for L'Echiquier Amaytois in the 2012/13 season , in the Spanish team championship he has been playing for the Sestao Naturgas Energia XT since 2011 and was champion with it in 2012 and 2013 . Giri took part in the European Club Cup eight times (2009 with HMC Calder , 2011 and 2012 with SchSM-64 Moscow , 2013, 2014 and 2015 with SOCAR Baku and 2016 and 2017 with Siberia Novosibirsk ). He won the competition with the team in 2014 and 2017, came second in 2015 and third in 2012 and 2013. In the individual ranking he won on the fourth board in 2014, came second on the reserve board in 2013 and on the fifth board in 2017 and third on the second board in 2016.

Game example

Məmmədyarov – Giri

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 21.… Rad8

Giri won the following short game with the black stones against Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov in Doha at the Qatar Masters 2014.

Məmmədyarov – Giri 0: 1

Doha, November 30, 2014

English opening , A22

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. g3 Bb4 4. Bg2 0–0 5. e4 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Re8 7. d3 c6 8. Ne2 d5 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Rb1 Nc6 12. 0– 0 Bg4 13. f3 Bf5 14. Rxb7 Nb6 15. f4 e4 16. Qb3 Be6 17. Qb5 exd3 18. Rxb6 dxe2 19. Re1 Bc4 20. Qxc6 Qd1 21. Kf2 Rad8 0: 1

Shogi

Anish Giri also plays the Japanese chess variant Shogi - albeit not at as high a level as Western chess.

Works

• Anish Giri: My junior years in 20 games . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2014, ISBN 978-90-5691-551-3 .
• After Magnus: Who Can Dethrone the World Chess Champion? (2015, ISBN 978-90-5691-626-8 ).

Web links

Commons : Anish Giri  - Collection of Images

• Anish Giri website
• Article about Anish Giri ( Memento of February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Anish Giri at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Another Chess Wedding: Anish Giri becomes a Son in Law of Georgia, and Sopiko Guramishvili Marries One of the World's Top Players. chess-news.ru, July 18, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Alina L'Ami: Anish and Sopiko get married. chessbase.com, July 24, 2015, accessed July 25, 2015 . 
3. ↑ susanpolgar.blogspot.com
4. ↑ Chess Magazine 64 from July 2011 (PDF; 768 kB)
5. ↑ Article on the European Youth Championships 2006 on chessbase.com (English)
6. ↑ fide.com
7. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Anish Giri's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Netherlands. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
10. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Netherlands. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Anish Giris results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ Anish Giri's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open board prices (final score after 11 rounds) - Open. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Anish Giri's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
15. ↑ chessdom.com