Anish Giri

About Anish Giri

Chess prodigy from Russia who now represents the Netherlands on the international stage.

Anish Kumar Giri is a Russian-Dutch chess player. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. FIDE awarded him the title in 2009. Giri is a four-time Dutch champion and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010. He has represented the Netherlands at five Chess Olympiads. He also won major international tournaments, including the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament, 2017 Reykjavik Open and shared 1st place in the 2015 London Chess Classic and 2018 Wijk aan Zee. In 2019 he won clear first at the Third Edition of the Shenzhen Masters, deemed by some to be his first supertournament victory and supported by Dutch Chess Federation. As of March 2021, Anish Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in Netherlands and the No. 7 in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2776.

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Trivia

He became a Grandmaster at the young age of 14 and in January 2011, he beat world number one Magnus Carlsen.

Anish Giri before fame

Before becoming a chess prodigy, he moved from Russia to Japan and subsequently to the Netherlands.

Achievement of Anish Giri

He achieved a Grandmaster at the age of 14 and defeated world number one Magnus Carlsen in January 2011.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Anish Giri family life

His father is Nepalese and his mother is Russian.

Associations of Anish Giri

Alexander Obolentseva, a fellow chess prodigy, is frequently compared to him.

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