Anish Giri

Anish Giri
Anish Giri in Bundesliga 2014
Country	Russia (until 2009) Netherlands (since 2009)
Born	(1994-06-28) June 28, 1994 (age 22) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2769 (February 2017)
Peak rating	2798 (January 2016)

Anish Kumar Giri (born June 28, 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch Grandmaster and former chess prodigy. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 14 years and 7 months.

Giri is a four-time Dutch Chess Champion (2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010. He has represented the Netherlands at four Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016). He also won at the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament.

Giri was born in St Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to Nepalese father (Sanjay Giri) and a Russian mother (Olga Giri). In 2002, he moved to Sapporo, Japan, with his parents and lived there until 2008. Since February 2008, Giri and his family have been living in Rijswijk, Netherlands, where his father works at a research and consulting foundation. He has two sisters, Natasha and Ayusha.

In June 2013, Giri finished high school at Grotius College in Delft. His favorite subjects included physics, mathematics, geography and history. He married Sopiko Guramishvili on 18 July 2015. He lives in The Hague. On October 3, 2016, while Anish was playing the Tal Memorial, his son Daniel was born.

Giri's first club was a local youth sport club 'DYUSH-2' in St. Petersburg, Russia. His trainers in this club were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov. He was a member of the Japan Chess Association and the Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan.

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

Giri shared first place in the Russian Higher League Under-14s Boys Championship scoring 6.5/9, winning the St Petersburg Boys Under 16s and coming third in the Under 18s event in 2007. The next year saw him share first at the Blokadny St Petersburg Open and win the Petrograd Winter Open scoring 8.5/9. 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 6.5/9.