1. Anish Giri has won major international tournaments, most notably the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament after edging out Nodirbek Abdusattorov on the last day to win the event, becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968, and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so.
Anish Giri was born in Saint Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to a Russian mother, Olga, and Nepali father, Sanjay Anish Giri.
Anish Giri moved to Sapporo, Japan with his parents in 2002 and lived there until 2008.
In June 2013, Anish Giri graduated from Grotius College in Delft.
Anish Giri can speak English, Russian, Nepali, Dutch and Hindi.
Anish Giri began playing chess with his mother at age six.
Anish Giri's first club was a local youth sport club DYUSH-2 in Saint Petersburg, where his trainers were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov.
Anish Giri was a member of the Japan Chess Association and Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan.
Anish Giri developed quickly as a junior, his rating increasing rapidly between April 2006 and July 2010 from 2114 to 2672.
Anish Giri shared second at the Dutch Open, won the Dutch Championship and shared second at the Unive tournament.
In February 2015, Anish Giri briefly crossed the 2800 mark in the live FIDE ratings by beating Peter Svidler at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tbilisi, but did not maintain the ranking level until the end of the month to appear in the official ratings.
In March 2016, Anish Giri participated in the Candidates Tournament 2016 in Moscow after qualifying as one of the two players with the highest average ratings for 2015.
Anish Giri went to the tournament with his wife Sopiko Guramishvili and his coach Vladimir Tukmakov.
Since 2016, Anish Giri has been sponsored by the proprietary trading firm Optiver.
Anish Giri reached the fourth round Section 3 of the Chess World Cup, losing to Vassily Ivanchuk in a tie-break.
Anish Giri won the European Club Cup as part of team Globus, alongside, among others, Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk and Sergey Karjakin.
In May, Anish Giri participated in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix tournament, which is part of the qualification cycle for the 2020 World Chess Championship.
Anish Giri played in the Candidates Tournament 2020 which was suspended at the halfway point due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 12 to 14 June 2020, Anish Giri participated in the MrDodgy Invitational.
Anish Giri won the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational, a non-FIDE-rated online tournament, after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the finals in tie-breaks.
From 12 to 16 May 2021, Anish Giri participated in the second edition of the MrDodgy Invitational, a blitz tournament.
The top-seeded Anish Giri defeated Baadur Jobava in the finals to clinch first place for the second time in a row.
At the Chess World Cup 2021, the 4th seeded Anish Giri was defeated in an upset by 68th seed Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
In September 2021, Anish Giri won the Tolstoy Cup tournament organized by the State Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate 'Yasnaya Polyana' and the Chess Federation of Russia.
At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023, Anish Giri beat World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in classical chess for the first time in 12 years.
Anish Giri defeated Ding Liren, who would eventually win the World Championship later that year, and finished tournament by defeating the Hungarian Grandmaster Richard Rapport in the last round.
Anish Giri defeated Ding during the Superbet Chess Classic Romania leg of the Grand Chess Tour 2023, their first game since Ding's victory in the World Chess Championship 2023.
At the 2023 Dutch championship, Anish Giri claimed his 5th championship title by defeating Jorden van Foreest in rapid tiebreaks following draws in the classical portion of the match.
At the Chess World Cup 2023, the 5th seeded Anish Giri was upset by the 69th seeded Nijat Abasov in the third round in tiebreaks.
Anish Giri had defeated Arseniy Nesterov in the second round in tiebreaks, and he had a tie in the first round.
Anish Giri finished joint first place in the Tata Steel tournament with 8.5 points from 13 games but lost to the eventual runner-up Gukesh D in the tiebreaker semifinals.
Anish Giri has represented the Netherlands at six Chess Olympiads earning three individual bronze medals and scoring a total of 35 points from 49 games.
Anish Giri has competed in a World Team Championship, two European Team Championships and a World Cities Championship, earning a team gold medal in the World Cities Championship:.
Anish Giri has played for numerous clubs in team tournaments including SK Turm Emsdetten since 2008 in the Chess Bundesliga, HSG, the Delftsche SchaakClub, HMC Calder and En Passant.
Anish Giri used to play in Spanish league for chess club Sestao Naturgas Energia.
Anish Giri used to play in the French league for l'Echiquier Chalonnais and Russian league for SHSM-64.
Anish Giri has participated and won the prestigious European Club Cup with Azeri SOCAR and Russian Siberia.
Anish Giri's playstyle has been described as "solid and conservative" in chess terms.
Anish Giri was quoted later as saying "Carlsen will probably not lose like this again in the next ten years".
Anish Giri moved into second place in the tournament after the win, a half-point behind Nepomniachtchi.
Anish Giri was tied in first place in the tournament alongside Nodirbek Abdusattorov after the win.
Anish Giri is fluent in Russian, English, and Dutch and moderately proficient in Japanese, Nepali, and German.
Anish Giri is married to fellow chess player and international master Sopiko Guramishvili; the couple were married on 18 July 2015.
Anish Giri annotated a number of top games for the popular chess site ChessBase, and has written several articles, including analyses of his own games for chess magazines, such as New in Chess, 64, and Schach Magazin 64.
Anish Giri used to be a columnist for the magazine ChessVibes Training.
Anish Giri has created three Chessable courses, featuring the Sicilian Najdorf, Sicilian Dragon and French Defence openings, which has led to some banter among other GMs.
In 2014, Anish Giri published his first book, My Junior Years In 20 Games.