The chess games of Anish Giri

A Giri

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Anish Giri
Number of games in database: 629
Years covered: 2005 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2734
Overall record: +218 -80 =259 (62.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      72 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Sicilian (44)
    B81 B31 B90 B50 B40
Slav (36)
    D17 D11 D12 D10 D15
Queen's Pawn Game (24)
    E00 E10 A41 A45 A40
Grunfeld (20)
    D85 D78 D76 D97 D70
King's Indian (19)
    E90 E98 E92 E60 E91
Catalan (18)
    E04 E06 E05

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (53)
    B90 B40 B48 B91 B50
Petrov (32)
    C42 C43
Grunfeld (25)
    D85 D70 D94 D90 D91
King's Indian (22)
    E92 E97 E98 E91 E61
Slav (21)
    D12 D10 D11 D17 D16
French Defense (18)
    C15 C05 C18 C17 C01

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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Carlsen vs A Giri, 2011 0-1
   A Giri vs F A Cuijpers, 2009 1-0
   Nakamura vs A Giri, 2012 0-1
   W So vs A Giri, 2010 0-1
   Nisipeanu vs A Giri, 2010 0-1
   T Hillarp Persson vs A Giri, 2010 0-1
   A Giri vs D Howell, 2010 1-0
   A Giri vs Morozevich, 2012 1-0
   A Giri vs N Grandelius, 2010 1-0
   A Giri vs Harikrishna, 2010 1-0

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ANISH GIRI (born Jun-28-1994) Russia (citizen of Netherlands)	PRONUNCIATION:		[what is this?]
GM Giri started playing chess at age 7, and a few years later won the Russian U12 championship. He gained his first GM norm by winning the Intomart GfK Open in Hilversum in 2008, his second GM norm at Groningen Chess Festival (2009) and his third GM norm title when he came second at the Corus (Group C) (2009) tournament, thus becoming the youngest Grand Master at the time in the world at the age of 14 years 7 months and 2 days. Furthermore he gained the GM title without acquiring an IM title first. Later that year, Giri placed clear first with 6/8 at the Dutch Championship (2009). He started off 2010 with a bang by winning the Corus (B Group) (2010) tournament, thereby earning an invitation to the A-division of the 2011 event, followed it up in May 2010 by winning the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (2010) with 4.5/5 and a 2936 performance rating and in June 2010 by coming second to Jan Smeets in the Dutch Championship (2010). The Chess Olympiad (2010) was a successful event for Giri, winning the bronze medal by scoring 8/11 and producing a 2730 performance on board four for the Netherlands. He scored 3rd in the quadrangular Unive Tournament (2010) in October 2010. His debut in the Tata Steel (2011) super tournament was mildly auspicious, finishing in the middle of the table with 6.5/13 (+2 -2 =9) and a 2744 performance rating, defeating Magnus Carlsen and Wang Hao in their individual encounters. He came 3rd with 5/10 in his inaugural Dortmund (2011), and won the Dutch Championship (2011) with a round to spare. In late 2011, he came second behind Vladimir Kramnik at the 15th Unive (Crown Group) (2011) with 3/6. Giri finished 2011 as the lowest rated entrant in the category 20 Reggio Emilia (2011), and started 2012 by emerging as the outright winner of that tournament with 6/10 (+4 -2 =4, TPR 2822), a half point ahead of Alexander Morozevich, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. Unfortunately for him, his recent gains were undone in his first tournament of 2012, when he placed equal last in the category 21 Tata Steel (2012) with 4.5/13 (+2 -6 =5; TPR 2648), although he won the Dutch Championship (2012) with a round to spare to restore him to the 2700 club. A strong =3rd at the Grandmaster tournament in the Biel Chess Festival (2012) considerably boosted his stocks, restoring him to his peak rating. He also represented the Netherlands on board 1 at the Chess Olympiad (2012) in Istanbul, scoring 4/7 at rating par. Giri's second Grand Prix contest at the FIDE Grand Prix Zug (2013) also did not produce the desired outcome, his 5/11 (+0 -1 =10) virtually eliminating him from contention for the top 2 needed to qualify for the Candidates. Giri plays for SK Turm Emsdetten in the German Bundeslige, and is apparently the youngest player to have participated in this very powerful league. In the 2012 European national club championship season, Giri's performances in the Bundesliga, and in the Dutch and Russian team competitions maintained par with his rating. However, he had a disastrous outing at the 13th European Individual Championship (2012), scoring 6.5/11 and shedding 27 points to push him below the 2700 rating level for the first time since breaching it. The FIDE Grand Prix London (2012) was the first in the six legs of the 2012-13 Grand Prix series; Giri participated as an AGON nominee but scored only 4/11, accumulating only 15 GP points that accrue to shared 10th and 11th place. At the end of 2012, he played top board for the Hoogoven team at the World Cities Team Championship (2012), and lead the team to victory in the final, thereby claiming the Sheikh Zayed Cup. The beginning of 2013 saw him play at the category 20 Tata Steel (2013), where he placed =8th, scoring 6/13, followed by =4th with 7.5/10 at the Reykjavik Open (2013), half a point behind the three co-leaders. Giri assisted Viswanathan Anand in his World Championship title defence against Veselin Topalov in April 2010. He currently lives in Holland with his Nepalese father Sanjay Giri (a Research Scientist) and Russian mother, Olga Giri. Anish is a typical Hindu name used in parts of the Hinduism-dominated countries of India and Nepal. As of 1 May 2013, Giri's rating is 2734, making him the top player in the Netherlands, the top Junior (U20) in the world, and number 20 player overall in the world. His FIDE ratings in rapid are 2712 (world #28) and 2685 (world #49) respectively. Anish's official website: http://anishgiri.nl/ live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/ Wikipedia article: Anish Giri

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. E Grigorjev vs A Giri	1-0	48	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	A10 English
2. A Giri vs V Churikov	0-1	37	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense
3. A Giri vs N Gaprindashvili	½-½	63	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	E15 Queen's Indian
4. Krivonosov vs A Giri	1-0	117	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	E92 King's Indian
5. A Giri vs D Efremova	1-0	71	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	E90 King's Indian
6. V Plat vs A Giri	0-1	30	2005	EU-ch U12	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
7. V Bagrunov vs A Giri	0-1	34	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1
8. A Giri vs H Van Buitenen	1-0	33	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	B50 Sicilian
9. Y Vunder vs A Giri	1-0	75	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	A20 English
10. A Giri vs A Malofeev	½-½	70	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	B15 Caro-Kann
11. A Giri vs Garriy Airapetov	0-1	33	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	B08 Pirc, Classical
12. F Ashiku vs A Giri	0-1	31	2005	EU-ch U12	E63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
13. M Zacurdajev vs A Giri	1-0	21	2005	Chigorin Mem	A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
14. V S Nikolaev vs A Giri	1-0	62	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
15. I Akimov vs A Giri	1-0	49	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	E97 King's Indian
16. D Kosarev vs A Giri	0-1	39	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	E83 King's Indian, Samisch
17. D Dolbnya vs A Giri	½-½	34	2005	St Petersburg-Moscow m	B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long
18. A Giri vs D Vorobiov	0-1	35	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	B40 Sicilian
19. A Giri vs Z Strzemiecki	0-1	33	2005	EU-ch U12	C10 French
20. A Penkov vs A Giri	0-1	45	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	A02 Bird's Opening
21. A Giri vs A Achang	1-0	37	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
22. A Giri vs Valentin Abramov	0-1	45	2005	St Petersburg White Nights op	B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
23. A Giri vs D Dolbnya	½-½	40	2005	St Petersburg-Moscow m	B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
24. V Zamyshlyaev vs A Giri	1-0	70	2005	St Petersburg Chigorin op	C15 French, Winawer
25. V Tchernyi vs A Giri	1-0	72	2005	Chigorin mem 13th	B40 Sicilian


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Apr-26-12		cro777: Of course, the wording was not the best. But he did not intend to insult anybody. I have analysed those games. His remark was mainly about certain types of positions.

Apr-27-12		Atking: I'm not interested by some casual psychological problems between Giri and Aronian but I appreciate the deep analysis Giri did of the games Kramnik-Aronian (To my point of view this work shows a lot respect for both players.).

Apr-27-12		Nightsurfer: <Anish Giri> is - as we learn from the most recent report http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... - a fan of SHOGI too, and the same is true for our Queen Almira Skripchenko and for Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: The three of them have battled out a SHOGI-simul against SHOGI-<Meijin> Toshiyuki Moriuchi at Paris in the autumn of 2011, please check out once more again the reportage http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... that has published the records of the games!

Apr-27-12		Nightsurfer: In case that you would ask how SHOGI looks like: Herewith a feature that the German-language program of <MTV>!! has aired on that great Japanese version of Chess, please turn to the link as follows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9eZ... . And there you will see Rene Gralla play a short game of a demonstration against <Daniel "Budi" Budiman>, herewith more information about the latter: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel... , who is a very popular TV-journalist who covers electronic games in <MTV>'s magazine GAME ONE together with his partner <Simon Kr�tschmer>, herewith more information about <Simon Kr�tschmer>: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_.... Both <Daniel "Budi" Budiman> and <Simon Kr�tschmer> have been the presenters of that very production on SHOGI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9eZ... that has been aired by <MTV>.

Apr-27-12		Nightsurfer: For those of you who rather speak SPANISH than GERMAN: Herewith the <SPANISH> version of that very program that the German-language program of <MTV> has aired on SHOGI - namely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9eZ... - , just turn to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTIo... ... <para disfrutar de eso>! :-)

Apr-27-12		delftfan: <....I appreciate the deep analysis Giri did of the games Kramnik-Aronian (To my point of view this work shows a lot respect for both players.)> Well said Atking!

Apr-30-12		joeyj: The �Top List� of the 6 youngest GMs who had breached the HGM mark (2700+) Netherland�s Anish Giri came in 2nd youngest officially in July 2011 rating at age 17yrs & 3days. (15th youngest GM & 7th youngest to breached the 2600+ mark) read more: World�s Youngest To Attain GM, 2600, 2700, 2800 and WC http://chessaccount.wordpress.com/2...

May-23-12		delftfan: WC season.... http://anishgiri.nl/html/eng/news.h...

Jun-28-12		LoveThatJoker: Happy 18th Birthday, GM Anish Giri! LTJ

Jun-28-12		brankat: Happy Birthday!

Jun-28-12		joeyj: Happy Birthday GM Anish Giri !!!

Jun-28-12		Six66timesGenius: Happy Birthday Anish Boy!

Jul-01-12		delftfan: Happy B'day buddy (better late than never)!

Jul-16-12		voratco: Tweet tweet 16 hrs ago, taken from Live Chess Ratings 2700chess. I have no evidence this is really the tweeter account of GM Anish "humble" Giri. <anishgiri: Picked up the point in nice style, after Sokolov blew up himself in an ugly Catalan. Hoping for the excellent follow up at Dutch Ch!> Congratulations!!!!

Jul-16-12		Stonehenge: Live games, just click on NK: http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=nl...

Jul-16-12		cro777: Science Park Amsterdam (SPA) is hosting three chess tournaments (from 14 to 22 July 2012). The Dutch National Chess Championships 2012 The ACP Golden Classic Tournament (seven grandmasters, including Gata Kamsky and Vassily Ivanchuk, are competing against each other). The open chess tournament SPA Chess.

Jul-16-12		cro777: Giri's win over Ivan Sokolov was the only decisive game in the first round of the Dutch Championship 2012. Anish trapped Sokolov's queen. GM Giri, Anish (2696) - GM Sokolov, Ivan (2676) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O Nc6 7. b3 Ne4 8. Bb2 b6 9. Nc3 Bb7 10. e3 a5 11. Na4 f5 12. Ne1 Qe8 13. Nd3 Bf6 14. a3 Rd8 15. Qc2 Rf7 16. Rac1 g5 17. f3 Nd6 18. Ne5 Bxe5 19. dxe5 Nc8 20. cxd5 exd5 21. f4 g4 22. Rfd1 Qe6 23. Nc3 Rfd7 24. Nb5 N8e7 25. Qd2 h5 26. Qf2 d4 27. exd4 Qxb3 28. Qc2 Qxb5 29. Bf1 click for larger view 29...Qxf1+ 30. Rxf1 Rd5 31. Rfe1 Kh7 32. e6 Kg6 33. a4 h4 34. gxh4 Rh8 35. Qf2 Rh7 36. Re3 Rd6 37. h3 Nd5 38. Rg3 Rxe6 39. hxg4 Re4 40. gxf5+ Kf7 41. Qg2 1-0 <Anish Giri: "Picked up the point in nice style, after Sokolov blew up himself in an ugly Catalan."> "Ugly Catalan". Instead of the main line of the Catalan 6...dxc4, Sokolov chose a rare continuation 6...Nc6. In the position after 8.Bb2, last year he lost to Avrukh (an expert in the Catalan) in the Classical Dutch Stonewall 8...f5. In this game against Giri he opted for 8...b6 (to stay in "an ugly Catalan") and introduced a novelty 10...a5 (10...Qd7 was played before). After two consecutive Sokolov's bad moves 16...g5?! (better was 16...Ne7) and 17...Nd6?! (better was 17...dxc4) Giri stood clearly better. In an inferior position Sokolov blundered 28...Qxb5?? (obviously, he should have exchanged the queens 28...Qxc2).

Jul-16-12		delftfan: And he seems to be in the list of Grand Prix 2012-2013: http://www.chessdom.com/%3Fp%3D10997 Wish you the best, buddy!!!

Jul-16-12		voratco: <4. FIDE President Nominee GM Fabiano Caruana (ITA) 5. AGON Nominees GM Alexander Morozevich (RUS) GM Wang Hao (CHN) GM Peter Leko (HUN) GM Leinier Dominguez Perez (CUB) GM Anish Giri (NLD) GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB)> Another handout, magic hat seems to be all over these days. I guess a pre-requisite to be afforded a pass these days is to master the art of a## kissing or brown nosing. :D) And why is Magnus Carlsen not playing in this event, it there a new poster boy in town?

Jul-16-12		voratco: Anish tweeted 6 hrs ago. <anishgiri Won another smooth game, after Sipke Ernst collapsed with white! ..and saw my name in GranfPrix list! Hoping for some more presents..:P> Congratulations and may all those presents keep coming. :D)

Jul-17-12		delftfan: @voratco <And why is Magnus Carlsen not playing in this event, it there a new poster boy in town?> He does not need GP as he has already been qualified as world no. 1 for the candidate (I presume)....or am I wrong???

Jul-17-12		Eyal: <He does not need GP as he has already been qualified as world no. 1 for the candidate (I presume)....or am I wrong???> You're wrong about him already qualifying, but not about (probably) not needing the GP - it's a bit confusing when there are several cycles going on simultaneously... Carlsen qualified for the upcoming candidates tournament (London, March 2013), but the GP belongs to the cycle after that, and Carlsen hasn't qualified for the 2014 (?) candidates yet. Still, most likely he's counting on qualification by rating to that event as well when the time (i.e., relevant rating lists) comes. For that to happen he just needs to do reasonably well in the tournaments he's regularly invited to, rather than play 4 additional tournaments. Assuming there will be 3 rating spots* for the candidates again, I suppose Aronian & Kramnik, who aren't participating either, count on that as well. And, of course, if any of these three players wins the upcoming candidates tournament - which seems likely - he'll qualify as a challenger, even if he loses to Anand in the next WC match (like Gelfand qualified for the upcoming candidates). * According to the published FIDE regulations 2 players qualify from the GP, so judging by what's been going on in recent years I suppose that in addition it's going to be the winner of the world cup 2013, 3 by rating, the loser of the next WC match, and an organizer's nominee.

Jul-17-12		delftfan: @Eyal Thanks...indeed!!!

Jul-18-12		voratco: Thanks for the info, Eyal. Really appreciate it.

Jul-18-12		cro777: The Dutch National Chess Championships 2012 (Round 3) Giri: "A big tactical mistake by Swinkels and the nice third point is there!" Anish Giri - Robin Swinkels 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. d4 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. b3 O-O 9. Bb2 Re8 10. Nc3 Bg4 11. dxc5 Bxc5 12. Rc1 Bf8 13. h3 Bh5 14. Nb5 Ne4 15. Nbd4 Rc8 16. Rc2 Nb4 17. Rxc8 Qxc8 18. a3 Na6 19. Qc1 Nac5 20. Nh4 Be7 21. Ndf5 Bxh4 click for larger view 22. Nxg7 Bg5 23. Qd1 Bg6 24. Nxe8 Qxe8 25. Qxd5 Qe6 26. Rd1 Qxd5 27. Rxd5 Be7 28. b4 Na4 29. Ba1 Nec3 30. Rd7 Bf6 31. Kf1 b5 32. Rxa7 Kg7 33. g4 h6 34. Bc6 Bc2 35. Ra6 Bd4 36. e3 Bd3+ 37. Ke1 Bf6 38. h4 Bc4 39. g5 hxg5 40. hxg5 Bxg5 click for larger view 41. Rxa4 1-0 Anish moved to 3/3.

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