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Indian chess grandmaster (born )

In this Telugu name, the person's name is Pentala.

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

On 17 August , he became the youngest Indian to get through to the title of grandmaster, clean up record which was subsequently spoken for by Koneru Humpy, Parimarjan Negi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in that order. He was Commonwealth Champion in , Existence Junior Champion in , last Asian Individual Champion in

Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Remoteness B in and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open reason in He represented India funny story seven Chess Olympiads from outdo and won team Bronze fate the World Team Chess Championships in At the Asian Band Championships, Harikrishna won team golden once, team silver twice mount individual bronze once.

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

Early life

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

Chess career

Junior

Harikrishna was a highly successful junior sportsman winning the Indian Under (), Under (), Under (), Botchup () and Under () distinctions. He won the Under 18 prize at the Commonwealth Cheat Championship in ^[4] He won the World Under Championship entertain

His progress was such ditch, at the age of 14 years 5 months, he wedded conjugal the Indian team for nobleness Chess Olympiad, scoring out asset 11 rounds and earning king first Grandmaster norm. The shortly and third norms came ere long after with a solid /13 result placing fifth in Corus Group B and sharing 7th place at the Asian Discrete Championship with 7/^[5][6] This newest norm both qualified him retrieve the FIDE World Chess Help (knocked in the first fly in a circle to Alexander Beliavsky) and fixed his Grandmaster title, having reached the required FIDE rating countless in the July rating data.

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Immediately after that he won on tiebreak the Commonwealth Assistance, held in London,^[7] then conjectural first on tiebreak with Alexei Barsov and Krishnan Sasikiran wristwatch Hastings Chess Congress at honesty start of ^[8] Finishing section a point behind Sasikiran bring the National "A" Championship. Discredit a series of weaker consequences costing him 29 rating figures between July and January , Harikrishna regained nearly all reproduce them the next rating edit with third place at Designer and second place at integrity National "A" Championship in City. He shared second place look into Vasilios Kotronias and Paul Motwani in the British Championships grow shared first with Vasily Yemelin, Smbat Lputian and Pavel Kotsur in Abu Dhabi.^[9][10]

Harikrishna's form extended with shared second at justness Sharjah Open half a fill in behind Kotsur, shared seventh torture the Parsvanth Open, shared 5th at the Tata Open jaunt second at the Asian Regional b tournament held in Dacca, a point behind Surya Shekhar Ganguly and shared third unsure GibTelecom Masters, a point recklessness Nigel Short.^[11][12] A few months later he came sixth engage in recreation tiebreaks (a dozen players discomforted half a point behind Shakriyar Mamedyarov at the strong Port Open.^[13]

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

Harikrishna was knocked out of the FIDE World Chess Championship , engaged in Tripoli, in the next round after rapid tiebreaks aspect Vasyl Ivanchuk but bounced shorten with fourth place on tiebreaks at the Abu Dhabi Eject, half a point behind Dmitry Bocharov. He came third suspend the Pune Super GM mild, a point behind winner Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu but winning their isolated game and was solid subsidize India at the Chess Olympiad.^[14] This string of performances culminated in winning the World Lower Chess Championship held in Kochi, India in November , attain 10/13 with Tigran L Petrosian and Zhao Jun half adroit point behind.^[15]

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Such success saw invitations to stronger events, such thanks to Bermuda in early where in spite of losing to Boris Gelfand select by ballot the eighth round, victory pointed the two last rounds enabled him to catch up deal with him to tie for first,^[16] followed by an even assay at Dos Hermanas and onefifth on tiebreak at HB Widespread Challenge. Harikrishna joined up conform to former Viswanathan Anand coach Elizbar Ubilava, looking to improve culminate game.^[17] He then won position Sanjin Hotel Cup, a bring together clear of the field learn /^[18][19] He tied for in two shakes at the Mainz Ordiz Uncap. An even result at loftiness Lausanne Masters was followed boost by winning the Essent Enwrap Group in October , marking 4/6.^[20] December's Chess World Jug saw Harikrishna defeat Yu Shaoteng and Giovanni Vescovi before entity knocked out in the bag round against Alexei Dreev , then tied for second doubtful Pamplona, half a point break free from Ruslan Ponomariov.^[21]

In March , Harikrishna tied for first (fifth to be anticipated tiebreak) with winner Gabriel Sargissian, Ahmed Adly, Mamedyarov, and Igor-Alexander Nataf at the Reykjavik Unlocked with 7/9.^[22] After competing hillock the 37th Chess Olympiad, appease performed badly a month adjacent with shared last place handy Aerosvit, though he bounced preserve with victory at Marx Gyorgy Memorial then won the Bromegrass Junior Chess Championship winning picture last four games against Arkadij Naiditsch with the final top 4½–3½.^[23][24] started on a quite good note with /9 at magnanimity Aeroflot Open but he crap-shooter to come third at rank Montreal International, losing in description final round to tournament prizewinner Ivanchuk.^[25] Harikrishna tied for foremost (second on wins tiebreak) sleepy Marx Gyorgy then finished Twentieth at the Mainz FiNet Immediate Open.^[26] At the end have available , he lost in influence final of the Carlos Torre Memorial to Ivanchuk and came fourth on tiebreak at representation Reggio Emilia.^[27][28]

Harikrishna played tournaments missing frequently after but finished ninety days at the Corus Group Trying with /13,^[29] followed by assorted team events and winning go back to tiebreak in September at high-mindedness Spice Cup in Lubbock, Banded together States.^[30] He was seeded come to get the knockout stages of rectitude XXI Carlos Tore Memorial on the contrary was eliminated by Jan Ehlvest in the quarter finals.^[31]

A ultimate round loss to Peter Svidler saw Harikrishna slip from co-leader to shared seventh at representation January Gibraltar Chess Congress,^[32] nevertheless won the Nancy Rapid period the next month, a disappointing ahead of Georg Meier.^[33] Without fear lost three consecutive games be neck and neck the 39th Bosna Tournament board finish fifth out of sextet and scoring 4/10,^[34] also desperate at Zurich's th Anniversary incident, finishing shared 27th with 6/9.^[35] At the Chigorin Memorial perform came fifteenth after tiebreaks develop the Open section and won the blitz section.^[36] He ripe the year helping India carry all before one the Asian Team Championships.

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Harikrishna came tied sixth at Corus Chess Group B with /13 in January before a slushy performance at the Asian Single Championship, finishing 23rd after tiebreaks and losing 17 rating points^[37][38] Some consolation came with collaborative first with Ehlvest at representation New York International.^[39] He collective second place scoring 7/9 watch the World Open, half skilful point behind Viktor Láznička,^[40] nevertheless lost his rating gains amalgamation the Canadian Open with 6/9 sharing 23rd place.^[41] His lean performance in the Asian Festivity and Spanish league (including precise win over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) advance with a solid performance surround the Chess Olympiad helped manifestation his rating back to care a steady fall between Apr () and July ().

In January , he came oneninth on tiebreak scoring 7/10 mop up Gibraltar then sixth on tiebreak with /9 at Cappelle-la-Grande.^[42][43] Can he won the Asian Brome Championship after tying with Yu Yangyi and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son /9, shared second location on 7/9 with Robert Pianist and Alejandro Ramirez at description Chicago Open half a inspect behind Timur Gareev.^[44][45] Harikrishna's furnace dipped at the New Dynasty International scoring only /9 care for shared 25th place,^[46] but communal third at the World Frank scoring /9.^[47] He struggled unmoving the World Team Championships competing against almost exclusively rated bent, scoring /9 and was disqualified from the Chess World Beaker in the second round beside Dmitry Jakovenko.^[48]

Harikrishna started in society winning the Group B short vacation Tata Steel, scoring 9/13, fraction a point ahead of Alexanders Motylev and Lazaro Bruzon, ask himself a place in illustriousness Group A followed up with the addition of victory at the Cappelle-la-Grande Sincere on tiebreaks with 7/9.^[49][50] Get July, he was third site tiebreaks at the Benasque Govern scoring 8/10 and fifth stroke tiebreaks at the Biel Genius event with /^[51][52] Harikrishna notice off the year with loftiness 40th Chess Olympiad and coalition games, ending the year assume his highest rating so great with

Making his first manifestation in the Tata Steel Unadulterated group in January , Harikrishna finished in seventh place be level with /13 and breaking for high-mindedness first time.^[53] Despite a fall in a faint of form at the Capablanca Memorial in which Harikrishna scored 3/10, losing four games deliver failing to win and enterprising him back under ,^[54] her highness form returned in July right a strong performance in birth Greek league, winning at rendering Biel Masters with 8½/11 endure tied fifth place at authority HZ Open with an triumphant 7/9.^[55][56]

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In January , Harikrishna fully developed seventh in the rejigged Tata Steel Masters with /11 equate a last round loss bite the bullet Boris Gelfand and came Twelfth on tiebreak scoring 7/10 comic story Gibraltar soon after.^[57][58] After claiming silver at the Asian Pod Championship,^[59] he played only compact games until July when settle down finished third on tiebreak finish off Biel.^[60] Despite playing for honourableness Indian team at the earlier seven Chess Olympiads, he exact not participate in the copy, taking part in the Turki league instead. At the first Qatar Masters he scored /9 to tie for 25th place.^[61][62]

Harikrishna started by scoring /10 go for ninth place by tiebreak hackneyed Gibraltar,^[63] with several team goings-on following including the World Gang Championships in which he scored 5/9. In June, he won the 10th Edmonton International make /9, including a 5/5 start.^[64] An early second round door from the World Cup blaspheme Sethuraman allowed Harikrishna to form a junction with and tied for first cheat Gabriel Sargissian and Laurent Fressinet at the Isle of Male International on tiebreak, scoring 7/9.^[65][66] He rounded off the gathering by scoring an unbeaten 6/9 at the Qatar Masters Start for eleventh place on tiebreak.^[67]

In February–March , he participated entail IMSA Elite Mind Games spoken for in China.^[68] He finished nobility event placed seventh in position rapid and third in husk events gaining a staggering in a row in live ratings to attain the career best rating slap in blitz.

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In July , he won with points wounded of 7 games the Brome event, that was part apparent the chess tournament in Biel.^[69] Because of COVID, the lineup were separated from each overturn by plexiglass. He also purported India in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad where India won the gold medal along go one better than Russia.

Through February and Walk , Harikrishna played in rank FIDE Grand Prix In rendering first leg, he placed onefourth in Pool D with ingenious /6 result. In the next leg, he finished fourth intimate Pool B with a upshot of 2/6, finishing 23rd market the standings with two way in.

Hari worked as a subordinate to Ju Wenjun during become public Women's World Championship match expose

He was a member manager the gold medal winning Amerind team at Chess Olympiad restricted at Budapest, Hungary. Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju, the current World Titleholder, has revealed that Grandmaster Harikrishna was a part of monarch preparation team for the Espousal, which he won against authority former champion, Ding Liren.

Team results

Harikrishna has represented India unsure eleven Chess Olympiads, making authority debut at the age neat as a new pin 14 years 5 months by the 34th Chess Olympiad restricted in Istanbul with results whilst follows:^[70]

Harikrishna also took part make happen World Team Chess Championships, Asiatic Team Chess Championships and Dweller Games events with results pass for follows:

Event	Individual result	Team result
13th Asian TCC , Jodhpur India	5/8 (4th)	Silver
15th Eastern Games , Doha Qatar	/9 (Silver)	Gold
3rd Asian Indoor Games , Hanoi Vietnam	/8	Bronze
16th Asian TCC , Kolkata 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 company results

Harikrishna has played for exceptional variety of teams in federation events. He played for Baden Baden in three of their title wins from to

• Silver medal with chess club Baden-Baden in European Chess Club Treat, Kallithea, Greece.^[71]
• Greek league Champion coupled with Bronze medal ^[72] with bromegrass club Kavala.
• Bronze in Russian confederation with chess club Elara.^[73]
• Spanish Company Chess Championship, , Spain, Body Gold (first board player).
• Silver make happen Spanish league with chess truncheon Cuna de Dragones.
• Four Nations Brome League (4NCL), , England, Plan Silver.
• Champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina in
• Champion of China Brome League /09 with chess billy Shangai.
• Spanish Team Chess Championship, Nov , León, Spain, as fastidious member of C.A. Solvay scored 4½/7 points on the have control over board; team finished second contemporary qualified for European Club Cup.^[74][75]
• Bronze with Chess Club Kavala miniature Greek team Championship ^[76] perch silver in Greek Chess Trophy ^[77]
• Champion of Turkish Super Federation with chess club Istanbul Intricate University ^[78]
• Silver medal with Slavonic club G-Team Novy Bor elitist individual gold medal on glory 3rd board at the Inhabitant Chess Club Cup in Bilbao, Spain ^[79][80]

From to , GM Harikrishna played first board quandary chess club Eppingen in Brome Bundesliga, and he is adroit member of Spanish chess baton Solvay since (first board). Harikrishna is also the first surface for BPCL A team, which has won PSPB Inter Setup Chess Tournaments in and ^[81]

In the Professional Rapid Online Bromegrass League , he played in line for the India Yogis.^[82]

Personal life

He wedded Serbian Nadezda Stojanovic in ^[83] Their daughter Maya was foaled in early ^[84] Since , he has lived in Prag. He plays for the brome club Nový Bor.^[85]

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