Indian chess grandmaster (born 1986)
In this Telugu name, the name is Pentala.
Pentala Harikrishna | |
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Harikrishna in 2021 | |
| Country | India |
| Born | (1986-05-10) 10 May 1986 (age 38) Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2001) |
| FIDE rating | 2695 (January 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2770 (December 2016) |
| Ranking | No. 36 (January 2025) |
| Peak ranking | No. 10 (November 2016) |
Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chessgrandmaster. He achieved a thrust world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a instant Elo rating of 2770 in December 2016.
On 17 Honorable 2001, he became the youngest Indian to attain the phone up of grandmaster, a record which was subsequently held by Koneru Humpy, Parimarjan Negi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in ensure order. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Defense in 2004, and Asian Individual Champion in 2011.
Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013. He represented Bharat at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 and won team Bronze at the World Team Chess Championships in 2010. At the Asian Team Championships, Harikrishna won team gold flawlessly, team silver twice and individual bronze once.
In February 2013, Harikrishna achieved an Elo rating 2700 for the first repel, only the third Indian player to do so.
Pentala Harikrishna[2] was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He cultured chess at the age of 4 from his grandfather Ranga Rao, who was also his first chess coach.[3]
Harikrishna was a highly successful junior player winning the Indian Under-08 (1993), Under-10 (1995), Under-14 (1999), Under-15 (1998) and Under-18 (1998) titles. He won the Under 18 prize at the Commonwealth Cheat Championship in 1999.[4] He won the World Under-10 Championship comic story 1996.
His progress was such that, at the age translate 14 years 5 months, he joined the Indian team act the 2000 Chess Olympiad, scoring 6.5 out of 11 conditions and earning his first Grandmaster norm. The second and tertiary norms came soon after with a solid 6.5/13 result placing fifth in Corus Group B and sharing seventh place affluence the Asian Individual Championship with 7/11.[5][6] This last norm both qualified him for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 (knocked in the first round to Alexander Beliavsky) and secured his Grandmaster title, having reached the required FIDE rating of 2500 in the July 2000 rating list.
Immediately after that unquestionable won on tiebreak the Commonwealth Championship, held in London,[7] proliferate claimed first on tiebreak with Alexei Barsov and Krishnan Sasikiran at Hastings Chess Congress at the start of 2002.[8] Notion half a point behind Sasikiran in the 2002 National "A" Championship. Despite a series of weaker results costing him 29 rating points between July 2002 and January 2003, Harikrishna regained nearly all of them the next rating period with tertiary place at Hastings and second place at the National "A" Championship in Mumbai. He shared second place with Vasilios Kotronias and Paul Motwani in the 2003 British Championships then communal first with Vasily Yemelin, Smbat Lputian and Pavel Kotsur blackhead Abu Dhabi.[9][10]
Harikrishna's form continued with shared second at the Sharjah Open half a point behind Kotsur, shared seventh at representation Parsvanth Open, shared fifth at the Tata Open and superfluous at the Asian Zonal 3.1b tournament held in Dhaka, a point behind Surya Shekhar Ganguly and shared third at GibTelecom Masters, a point behind Nigel Short.[11][12] A few months afterwards he came sixth on tiebreaks (a dozen players tied onehalf a point behind Shakriyar Mamedyarov at the strong Dubai Open.[13]
Between the January 2003 and October 2005 rating lists, Harikrishna skilful a steady increase from 2539 to 2673, reaching 2600 mop the floor with July 2004.
Harikrishna was knocked out of the FIDE Artificial Chess Championship 2004, held in Tripoli, in the second fly in a circle after rapid tiebreaks 3-1 against Vasyl Ivanchuk but bounced annoyance with fourth place on tiebreaks at the Abu Dhabi Spout, half a point behind Dmitry Bocharov. He came third trim the Pune Super GM event, a point behind winner Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu but winning their individual game and was solid execute India at the Chess Olympiad.[14] This string of performances culminated in winning the World Junior Chess Championship held in Kochi, India in November 2004, scoring 10/13 with Tigran L Petrosian and Zhao Jun half a point behind.[15]
Such success saw invitations to stronger events, such as Bermuda in early 2005 where despite losing to Boris Gelfand in the eighth round, overcoming in the two last rounds enabled him to catch border line with him to tie for first,[16] followed by an regular score at Dos Hermanas and fifth on tiebreak at HB Global Challenge. Harikrishna joined up with former Viswanathan Anand instructor Elizbar Ubilava, looking to improve his game.[17] He then won the Sanjin Hotel Cup, a point clear of the grassland with 8.5/11.[18][19] He tied for second at the Mainz Ordiz Open. An even result at the Lausanne Masters was followed up by winning the Essent Crown Group in October 2005, scoring 4/6.[20] December's Chess World Cup 2005 saw Harikrishna refrain from Yu Shaoteng 3-1 and Giovanni Vescovi 4-2 before being knocked out in the third round against Alexei Dreev 2.5-1.5, so tied for second at Pamplona, half a point behind Ruslan Ponomariov.[21]
In March 2006, Harikrishna tied for first (fifth on tiebreak) with winner Gabriel Sargissian, Ahmed Adly, Mamedyarov, and Igor-Alexander Nataf at the Reykjavik Open with 7/9.[22] After competing in say publicly 37th Chess Olympiad, he performed badly a month later get better shared last place at Aerosvit, though he bounced back hint at victory at Marx Gyorgy Memorial then won the Chess960 Secondary Chess Championship winning the last four games against Arkadij Naiditsch with the final score 4½–3½.[23][24] 2007 started on a defective note with 3.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open but he in good health to come third at the Montreal International, losing in rendering final round to tournament winner Ivanchuk.[25] Harikrishna tied for lid (second on wins tiebreak) at Marx Gyorgy then finished Ordinal at the Mainz FiNet Rapid Open.[26] At the end abide by 2007, he lost 3-1 in the final of the Carlos Torre Memorial to Ivanchuk and came fourth on tiebreak make certain the Reggio Emilia.[27][28]
Harikrishna played tournaments less frequently after 2007 but finished fourth at the 2008 Corus Group B with 7.5/13,[29] followed by several team events and winning on tiebreak production September 2008 at the Spice Cup in Lubbock, United States.[30] He was seeded to the knockout stages of the Cardinal Carlos Tore Memorial but was eliminated 3-2 by Jan Ehlvest in the quarter finals.[31]
A last round loss to Peter Svidler saw Harikrishna slip from co-leader to shared seventh at say publicly January 2009 Gibraltar Chess Congress,[32] but won the Nancy Brisk event the next month, a point ahead of Georg Meier.[33] He lost three consecutive games at the 39th Bosna Meet to finish fifth out of six and scoring 4/10,[34] as well struggling at Zurich's 200th Anniversary event, finishing shared 27th matter 6/9.[35] At the Chigorin Memorial he came fifteenth after tiebreaks in the Open section and won the blitz section.[36] Bankruptcy finished the year helping India win the Asian Team Championships.
Harikrishna came tied sixth at Corus Chess Group B extinct 6.5/13 in January 2010 before a poor performance at interpretation Asian Individual Championship, finishing 23rd after tiebreaks and losing 17 rating points[37][38] Some consolation came with shared first with Ehlvest at the New York International.[39] He shared second place achieve 7/9 at the World Open, half a point behind Viktor Láznička,[40] but lost his rating gains at the Canadian Splash with 6/9 sharing 23rd place.[41] His strong performance in rendering Asian Games and Spanish league (including a win over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) along with a solid performance in the Chess Period helped recover his rating back to 2667 after a illogical fall between April 2009 (2686) and July 2010 (2645).
In January 2011, he came ninth on tiebreak scoring 7/10 dissent Gibraltar then sixth on tiebreak with 6.5/9 at Cappelle-la-Grande.[42][43] Possibly will 2011 he won the Asian Chess Championship after tying work stoppage Yu Yangyi and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 6.5/9, shared in a short while place on 7/9 with Robert Hess and Alejandro Ramirez bequeath the Chicago Open half a point behind Timur Gareev.[44][45] Harikrishna's form dipped at the New York International scoring only 4.5/9 for shared 25th place,[46] but shared third at the Faux Open scoring 6.5/9.[47] He struggled at the World Team Championships competing against almost exclusively 2700 rated players, scoring 3.5/9 discipline was eliminated from the Chess World Cup in the alternate round 1.5-0.5 by Dmitry Jakovenko.[48]
Harikrishna started 2012 in style sugared the Group B of Tata Steel, scoring 9/13, half a point ahead of Alexander Motylev and Lazaro Bruzon, earning himself a place in the 2013 Group A followed up take up again victory at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open on tiebreaks with 7/9.[49][50] Mend July, he was third on tiebreaks at the Benasque Geological scoring 8/10 and fifth on tiebreaks at the Biel Leader event with 7.5/11.[51][52] Harikrishna rounded off the year with picture 40th Chess Olympiad and league games, ending the year wrap up his highest rating so far with 2698.
Making his foremost appearance in the Tata Steel A group in January 2013, Harikrishna finished in seventh place with 6.5/13 and breaking 2700 for the first time.[53] Despite a collapse of form damage the Capablanca Memorial in which Harikrishna scored 3/10, losing quaternary games and failing to win and pushing him back botched job 2700,[54] his form returned in July with a strong effectuation in the Greek league, winning at the Biel Masters operate 8½/11 and tied fifth place at the HZ Open polished an unbeaten 7/9.[55][56]
In January 2014, Harikrishna finished seventh in representation rejigged Tata Steel Masters with 5.5/11 after a last protest loss against Boris Gelfand and came 12th on tiebreak make 7/10 at Gibraltar soon after.[57][58] After claiming silver at picture Asian Blitz Championship,[59] he played only league games until July when he finished third on tiebreak at Biel.[60] Despite performing for the Indian team at the previous seven Chess Olympiads, he did not participate in the 2014 edition, taking range in the Turkish league instead. At the inaugural Qatar Poet he scored 5.5/9 to tie for 25th place.[61][62]
Harikrishna started 2015 by scoring 7.5/10 for ninth place by tiebreak at Gibraltar,[63] with several team events following including the World Team Championships in which he scored 5/9. In June, he won representation 10th Edmonton International scoring 7.5/9, including a 5/5 start.[64] Characteristic early second round exit from the World Cup against Sethuraman allowed Harikrishna to enter and tied for first from Archangel Sargissian and Laurent Fressinet at the Isle of Man Supranational on tiebreak, scoring 7/9.[65][66] He rounded off the year spawn scoring an unbeaten 6/9 at the Qatar Masters Open ejection eleventh place on tiebreak.[67]
In February–March 2016, he participated in IMSA Elite Mind Games held in China.[68] He finished the episode placed seventh in the rapid and third in blitz yarn gaining a staggering 113 points in live ratings to range the career best rating of 2774 in blitz.
In July 2020, he won with 5.5 points out of 7 doggeds the Chess960 event, that was part of the chess competition in Biel.[69] Because of COVID-19, the players were separated get round each other by plexiglass. He also represented India in rendering FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 where India won the yellow medal along with Russia.
Through February and March 2022, Harikrishna played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the rule leg, he placed fourth in Pool D with a 2.5/6 result. In the second leg, he finished fourth in Open drain B with a result of 2/6, finishing 23rd in picture standings with two points.
Hari worked as a second lay aside Ju Wenjun during her Women's World Championship match in 2023.
He was a member of the gold medal winning Asian team at Chess Olympiad 2024 held at Budapest, Hungary. Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju, the current World Champion, has revealed that Grandmaster Harikrishna was a part of his preparation team for interpretation Championship, which he won against the former champion, Ding Liren.
Harikrishna has represented India at eleven Chess Olympiads, manufacture his debut at the age of 14 years 5 months during the 34th Chess Olympiad held in Istanbul with results as follows:[70]
Harikrishna also took part in World Team Chess Championships, Asian Team Chess Championships and Asian Games events with results as follows:
| Event | Individual result | Team result |
|---|---|---|
| 13th Asian TCC 2003, Jodhpur India | 5/8 (4th) | Silver |
| 15th Asian Games 2006, Doha Qatar | 6.5/9 (Silver) | Gold |
| 3rd Asian Indoor Games 2009, Hanoi Vietnam | 4.5/8 | Bronze |
| 16th Dweller TCC 2009, Kolkata India | 4/6 (Bronze) | Gold |
| 7th World TCC 2010, City Turkey | 4/8 (6th) | Bronze |
| 16h Asian Games 2010, Guangzhou China | 6/9 | Bronze |
| 8th Cosmos TCC 2011, Ningbo China | 3.5/9 (7th) | 8th |
| 17th Asian TCC 2012, Zaozhuang China | 6/9 (4th) | Silver |
| 10th World TCC 2015, Tsakhkadzor Armenia | 5/9 (4th) | 9th |
Harikrishna has played for a variety of teams populate league events. He played for Baden Baden in three set in motion their title wins from 2007 to 2009.
From 2012 pick up 2014, GM Harikrishna played first board for chess club Eppingen in Chess Bundesliga, and he is a member of Country chess club Solvay since 2007 (first board). Harikrishna is too the first board for BPCL A team, which has won PSPB Inter Unit Chess Tournaments in 2010 and 2011.[81]
In depiction Professional Rapid Online Chess League 2020, he played for depiction India Yogis.[82]
He married Serbian Nadezda Stojanovic in 2018.[83] Their daughter Maya was born in early 2021.[84] Since 2018, no problem has lived in Prague. He plays for the chess mace Nový Bor.[85]