page_title: Anish Giri
section_title: 2007-2008
hierarchical_section_title: Anish Giri / Chess career / 2007-2008
caption_attribution_description: English: Anish Giri (born June 28, 1994). Photo by Rene Othlof
context_page_description: Anish Kumar Giri is a Russian-born Dutch chess player. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days, which made him the youngest Grandmaster in the world at that time. 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. He is currently an active top 10 player, and supported by Dutch Chess Federation. As of May 2020, Anish Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in Netherlands and the No. 10 in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2764.
context_section_description: Giri shared first place in the Russian Higher League Under-14s Boys Championship scoring 6½/9, 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 8½/9. 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 6½/9.
caption: Anish Giri, 2008
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