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The simultaneous chess exhibition in Belgrade was an excellent occasion to pose a couple of questions to Indian Grandmaster Harikrishna Pentala....

Pentala Harikrishna

Indian chess grandmaster (born 1986)

In this Telugu name, the surname is Pentala.

Pentala Harikrishna

Harikrishna in 2021

CountryIndia
Born (1986-05-10) 10 May 1986 (age 38)
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
TitleGrandmaster (2001)
FIDE rating2695 (January 2025)
Peak rating2770 (December 2016)
RankingNo.

GM Harikrishna, Pentala.

  • GM Harikrishna, Pentala.
  • He has played several seasons in the Chinese Chess League for the Shanghai team and was teammates with Ni Hua, who was Ding's second for this.
  • The simultaneous chess exhibition in Belgrade was an excellent occasion to pose a couple of questions to Indian Grandmaster Harikrishna Pentala.
  • Indian Grandmaster Harikrishna Pentala (2727), the current 2nd player of India and the 23rd player in the World, held a simultaneous chess exhibition on 29th.
  • GM Pentala Harikrishna, India's third highest ranked Grand Master, won the strongest chess tournament of its kind ever held on United States soil.

    • 36 (January 2025)

    Peak rankingNo. 10 (November 2016)

    Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chessgrandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak ELO rating of 2770 in December 2016.

    On 17 August 2001, he became the youngest Indian to attain the title of grandmaster, a record which was subsequently held by Koneru Humpy, Parimarjan Negi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in that order. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004, and Asian Individual Champion in 2011.

    Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B