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Anish Giri (Anish Kumar Giri) was born on 28 June, 1994 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a Russian-Dutch chess grandmaster (born 1994). Discover Anish Giri's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 29 years old?

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Age 29 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 28 June, 1994
Birthday 28 June
Birthplace Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1994

Anish Kumar Giri (अनीश कुमार गिरी; Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

Giri was born in Saint Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to a Russian mother, Olga, and Nepali father, Sanjay Giri.

His paternal grandmother is from India.

2002

He moved to Sapporo, Japan with his parents in 2002 and lived there until 2008.

2004

In 2004, he won the Sapporo Chess Championship.

2006

Giri developed quickly as a junior, his rating increasing rapidly between April 2006 and July 2010 from 2114 to 2672.

2007

Giri shared first place in the Russian Higher League Under-14s Boys Championship scoring 6½/9, winning the Saint Petersburg Boys Under 16s and coming third in the Under 18s event in 2007.

The next year saw him share first at the Blokadny Saint Petersburg Open and win the Petrograd Winter Open scoring 8½/9.

2008

Since February 2008, Giri and his family have lived in the Dutch town of Rijswijk, where his father worked at a research and consulting foundation.

He followed with his first Grandmaster norm, achieved at the Intomart GfK Open sharing first with 7/9 in April 2008, sharing second at Kunsthalle GM Open and reaching his second Grandmaster norm at Groningen by sharing fourth place with 6½/9.

2009

A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days.

Giri is a five-time Dutch champion (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2023) and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010.

Anish Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in the Netherlands, having switched from Russia in 2009.

In 2021 Wijk aan Zee, Giri tied for first place with fellow Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but lost to him in the armageddon round after the two blitz games in the playoff ended in a draw.

During the 2023 Tata Steel chess tournament, Giri edged out Nodirbek Abdusattorov on the last day to win the event, becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so.

Giri worked with trainer Vladimir Chuchelov between 2009–2012 and resumed in 2017.

Giri's first appearance at a major tournament came in his shared second place at Corus Chess Group C in January 2009 giving him his third GM norm, his Grandmaster status being confirmed in June.

He also shared second at the Dutch Open, won the Dutch Championship and shared second at the Unive tournament.

2010

He has represented the Netherlands at six Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022).

His performance in the previous year's Corus Chess Group C earned him a spot in Group B in 2010.

He won the tournament with a score of 9/13, half a point ahead of Arkadij Naiditsch.

Despite a disappointing result in the European Individual Championships, he drew a match with Nigel Short and won the Sigeman & Co tournament scoring 4½/5, coming second in the Dutch Championships behind Erwin l'Ami and was one of the best scorers for the Rising Stars team during the NH tournament against the Experienced team, but was unable to qualify for the Melody Amber tournament, losing on tiebreaks against Hikaru Nakamura.

It was revealed in May 2010 that Giri had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin Topalov.

Anand won the match 6½–5½ to retain the title.

2011

At his debut appearance at Tata Steel in 2011 he scored 6½/13 (+2–2=9) and defeated Magnus Carlsen with Black in 22 moves.

He also became Dutch champion for the second time and shared first place at Sigeman & Co with Wesley So and Hans Tikkanen.

2012

He has also won major international tournaments, including the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament, 2017 Reykjavik Open, 2023 Tata Steel Chess, and shared 1st place in the 2015 London Chess Classic.

Despite being the lowest ranked player, Giri won the 2012 Reggio Emilia chess tournament, claimed his third Dutch championship and shared third place at the strong Biel Chess Festival.

Giri took part in the 2012/13 FIDE Grand Prix cycle, but failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament.

2013

In June 2013, Giri graduated from Grotius College in Delft.

Giri began playing chess with his mother at age six.

By age 11, he was rated above 2100 and continued to grow stronger.

Giri's first club was a local youth sport club DYUSH-2 in Saint Petersburg, where his trainers were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov.

He was a member of the Japan Chess Association and Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan.

Giri also worked with Vladimir Tukmakov between 2013 and 2016.

His solid improvement continued with fourth place at the Reykjavik Open and a match victory against Vassily Ivanchuk at Leon in 2013.

2014

In 2014 Giri shared second place at the Tata Steel tournament, won individual bronze for his first board performance at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso and finished second at the strong Qatar Masters Open.

Giri participated in the 2014/15 FIDE Grand Prix cycle, but again failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament.

2015

In February 2015, Giri briefly crossed the 2800 mark in the live FIDE ratings by beating Peter Svidler at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tbilisi, but did not maintain the ranking level until the end of the month to appear in the official ratings.

2019

In 2019 he won clear first at the Third Edition of the Shenzhen Masters.