Pentala Harikrishna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pentala Harikrishna

Indian chess player

Date of Birth: 10-May-1986

Place of Birth: Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Profession: chess player

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is a chess Grandmaster from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12 September 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D.
He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004 and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. On personal front, he married Nadezda Stojanovic, the Serbian chess prodigy, in 2018. Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013.
He represented India at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 and won team Bronze at the World Team Chess Championships in 2010.
At the Asian Team Championships, Harikrishna won team gold once, team silver twice and individual bronze once. In February 2013, Harikrishna's FIDE rating passed 2700 for the first time.
He broke into the top ten players in the world in November 2016 with a FIDE rating of 2768.
He was a student of Vignan Group of Institutions.