P. Harikrishna

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P. Harikrishna, 2013
Association IndiaIndia India
Born May 10, 1986
Vinjanam Padu, Prakasam , Andhra Pradesh
title International Master (2000)
Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating 2732 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2770 (December 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

P. Harikrishna ( Pentala Harikrishna ; born May 10, 1986 in the village of Vinjanam Padu , Prakasam District , Andhra Pradesh ) is an Indian chess grandmaster .

Life

P. Harikrishna showed his exceptional talent early on: in 1996 he became U10 world champion in Menorca . In 2000 his rating rose to over 2500. He received the grandmaster title at the age of 15 in 2001, making him - V. Anand received this title at a later age - the youngest grandmaster in India. That year he won two major tournaments in London: the Commonwealth Championship and a very strong Open. At the turn of 2001/2002 he shared first place in Hastings with Alexei Barsov .

At the Indian championship in 2002 he was second behind K. Sasikiran . The 2003 championship ended with the same position at the top. In the same year Harikrishna won the Sharjah tournament . In 2004 he won the U20 World Junior Championship in Kochi . The year 2005 also got off to a promising start: at the tournament in Bermuda he shared first place with Boris Gelfand . At 500,000 dollars doped and extremely strong field open from Minneapolis he became shared second place, u. a. together with Gata Kamsky . In July 2005, Harikrishna won Taiyuan, China . As junior world champion in 2004, Harikrishna qualified for the 2005 World Chess Cup , where he failed in the third round to Alexei Drejew . In 2007 he took part in the World Chess Cup again, but failed in the first round. In 2011 he became Asian champion in Mashhad , after ranking ahead of Yu Yangyi and Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn . In the same year he took part in the Chess World Cup for the third time, where he failed after an opening win against Maxim Rodshtein to Dmitri Jakowenko .

In 2012 he won the B group at the Corus chess tournament with 9 points from 13 games and was the winner of the 28th Open in Cappelle-la-Grande .

Harikrishna lives in Hyderabad and Prague . Since March 2018 he has been married to the Serbian chess player Nadezda Stojanovic, whom he met in 1998 at a youth tournament.

National team

Harikrishna was appointed to the Indian national team for the first time in 2000 and has since participated in the 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . He also took part in the 2010, 2011 and 2015 World Team Championships (where he finished third with the team in 2010), the Asian Team Championships in 2003, 2009 and 2012 (which he won with India in 2009, while he was second in 2003 and 2012 respectively occupied), at the chess competitions of the Asian Games 2006 and 2010 as well as the chess competition of the Indoor Asian Games 2009.

societies

At the top for Solingen in the Bundesliga finals - without losing a game in the 2017/18 Bundesliga season

Harikrishna played from 2006 to 2009 in the German Federal Chess League for the OSG Baden-Baden , with which he was German team champion in 2007 , 2008 and 2009 and took part twice in the European Club Cup , where he came second in 2008. From the 2011/12 season to the 2014/15 season he played for the Eppingen chess club , and since the 2015/16 season he has been playing for the Solingen chess company , with which he was champion in the first season. In the Austrian Bundesliga he plays for SK MPÖ Maria Saal in the 2016/17 season .

In the Russian team championship he played in 2007 with Elara Tscheboksary and in 2008 for SchSM-64 Moscow , in the British Four Nations Chess League in the 2005/06 season for Guildford A&DC .

Harikrishna won the Chinese team championship in 2008 , 2016 , 2018 and 2019 with Shanghai Jianqiao University and China Mobil Shanghai Chess Club , respectively , and he also played in this competition in 2009 for Bank of Qingdao and 2012 for Chengdu Bank . Harikrishna was also active in the Bosnian Premijer League (which he won in 2009 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo ), in the Swiss National League A for the Winterthur chess company and in the Czech Extra League at 1. Novoborský ŠK , with which he in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , Became champions in 2017 and 2018 . With the 1st Novoborský ŠK he also took part in the European Club Cup from 2014 to 2018, where he achieved second place with the team in 2014 and 2018, in the individual classification he achieved the best result on the third board in 2014, and in 2015 the second best result on the second board and in 2017 the third best result on the second board. In Italy, Harikrishna played for Guido Cortuso Padova's team , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 2013, in Spain until 2006 for CA Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco Mérida , since 2007 for CA Solvay Torrelavega , with whom he became champion in 2015 . In the highest Hungarian league, the NB I. Szabó László csoport, he played in the 2015/16 season and again in the 2018/19 season for ASE Paks , in the French Top 12 2019 for Asnières - Le Grand Echiquier . In the Polish Ekstraliga , Harikrishna played for Polonia Wrocław in 2019 .

Web links

Commons : P. Harikrishna  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VV Subrahmanyam: P. Harikrishna to wed former chess player from Serbia , Sportstarlive.com, February 28, 2018
  2. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results - Open India. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open India. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results at the Asian Games ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ a b c P. Harikrishna's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ 2018 Chinese Chess League Division A R19-R22 team line-up with individual results. In: chess-results.com. November 30, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results in the Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)
  12. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ P. Harikrishna's results in Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Harikrishna, P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harikrishnan, Pentala
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinjanam Padu, Prakasam , Andhra Pradesh