Anish Giri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anish Giri

Dutch chess player

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1994

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Anish Kumar Giri (Nepali: ???? ????? ????; born June 28, 1994) 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 (2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015) and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010.
He has represented the Netherlands at five Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018).
He also won some 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 (KNSB).
As of November 2019, Anish Giri is the No.
1 ranked player in Netherlands and the No.
5 in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2776.