Born to a Russian mother and a Nepalese father, and raised in Russia, Japan and the Netherlands, Anish Giri can truly call himself an International Grandmaster. As a real globetrotter, he won the Russian U-12 championship while he was living in Japan. Anish Giri became a chess grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. At the time, in 2009, that meant he was the youngest grandmaster in the world. Few doubt that in the years ahead he will playa prominent role in the fight for the chess world championship. Starting fram the January 2013 list, Anish was the leading junior player in the FIDE world rankings. That position he inevitably lost on the 28th of June 2014, when he turned 20 and stopped being a Junior. His sights are now set on higher goals. Anish is not only an exceptional player. As Contributing Editor to New In Chess, he has shown that he is also a talented writer with a profound knowledge of the game, a great sense of humour and contagious enthusiasm. In this games collection, the young Dutch grandmaster sketches his rise to the chess elite and presents 20 fondly remembered games in his trademark style: instructive, witty and delightfully unimpressed by reputations.
Content:
007 Preface
011 Introduction
Games:
031 1. Domnin- Giri, St. Petersburg 2005
033 2. Kosarev- Giri, St. Petersburg 2005
038 3. Giri- Abdullayev, Herceg Novi 2006
041 4. Giri- Brandenburg, Dieren 2009
045 5. Giri- Kudriavtsev, St. Petersburg 2007
049 6. Giri- Dgebuadze, Hilversum 2008
055 7. Nyzhnyk- Giri, Enschede 2008
061 8. Giri- Werle, Germany 2008
066 9. Bartel- Giri, Germany 2008
072 10. Romanishin- Giri, Wijk aan Zee 2009
076 11. Giri- Nijboer, Haaksbergen 2009
079 12. Giri- Sutovsky, Wijk aan Zee 2010
082 13. Nyback- Giri, Wijk aan Zee 2010
085 14. Carlsen- Giri, Wijk aan Zee 2011
089 15. Anand- Giri, Wijk aan Zee 2011
099 16. Caruana- Giri, Reggio Emilia 2011/12
104 17. Giri- Ivanchuk, Reggio Emilia 2011/12
107 18. Morozevich- Giri, Biel2012
115 19. Giri- Li Chao, Tromse 2013
120 20. Nakamura- Giri, Wijk aan Zee 2014 |
