Pendyala Harikrishna

P. Harikrishna ( Pentala Harikrishna; born May 10, 1986 at village Vinjanam Padu, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh ) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Soon it became P. Harikrishna his exceptional talent: he was in Menorca 1996 U10 World Champion. His Elo rating in 2000 have increased to over 2500 and he was inducted into the Indian national team, with whom he at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul ( 2, -0, = 9) participated ( then also in Bled 2002 and Calvia 2004 ). He was awarded the Grandmaster title as a 15 -year-old in 2001, making it - V. Anand received this title at a later age - the youngest Grandmaster in India was. This year, he won in London two major tournaments: the championship of the Commonwealth and a very heavily occupied Open. At the turn of 2001/2002 he shared first place in Hastings with Alexei Barsov.

In the Indian Championship in 2002, he finished second behind K. Sasikiran. With the same level at the top ended the championship in 2003. During the same year Harikrishna won the tournament in Sharjah. In 2004, he won the Junior World Championship in Kochi U20. The year 2005, he began also promising: the tournament in Bermuda he shared with Boris Gelfand the first place. At $ 500,000 endowed and extremely strong field of Open Minneapolis he was and shared second place, including together with Gata Kamsky. In July 2005, Harikrishna won the Chinese Taiyuan. In 2011 he was in Mashhad Asian champions, after scoring against Yu Yangyi Nguyễn Ngọc and Trường Sơn.

In 2012 he won the B group at the Corus chess tournament with 9 points from 13 games and was scoring winner at 28 Open Capelle -la -Grande.

Harikrishna played from 2006/2007 bis 2008/2009 in the German Chess Bundesliga for the OSG Baden -Baden, since the 2011/2012 season he played at chess club Epping.