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Anish Giri
Anish Kumar Giri (Nepali: अनीश कुमार गिरि; Russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. Giri is a five-time Dutch champion (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2023), and has represented the Netherlands at seven Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024).
As of April 2026,[update] Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in the Netherlands, having switched from Russia in 2009. He has also won major international tournaments, most notably the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so. After previously qualifying for and competing in the 2016 and 2020 Candidates Tournaments by having one of the highest average ratings, Giri won the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 in September 2025, qualifying him for the Candidates Tournament 2026.
Giri was born in Saint Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to a Russian mother, Olga, and Nepalese father, Sanjay Giri. His paternal grandmother is Indian and is of Indo-Nepalese descent.
He moved to Sapporo, Japan, with his parents in 2002 and lived there until 2008. Since February 2008, Giri and his family have lived in the Dutch town of Rijswijk, where his father worked at a research and consulting foundation. In June 2013, Giri graduated from Grotius College in Delft.[citation needed]
Giri speaks Russian, English, and Dutch. When he was a child, he also spoke Nepali and Japanese.
Giri began playing chess with his mother at age six. By age 11, he was rated above 2100 (mid-level expert; just below master) and continued to grow stronger. Giri's first club was a local youth sport club DYUSSH-2 in Saint Petersburg, where his trainers were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov. He was a member of the Japan Chess Association and Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan. In 2004, he won the Sapporo Chess Championship.
Giri developed quickly as a junior, his rating increasing rapidly between April 2006 and July 2010 from 2114 to 2672. Giri worked with trainer Vladimir Chuchelov between 2009–2012 and resumed in 2017. Giri also worked with Vladimir Tukmakov between 2013 and 2016.[citation needed]
Giri shared first place in the Russian Higher League Under-14s Boys Championship scoring 6½/9, winning the Saint Petersburg Boys Under 16s and coming third in the Under 18s event in 2007. The next year saw him share first at the Blokadny Saint Petersburg Open and win the Petrograd Winter Open scoring 8½/9. He followed with his first Grandmaster norm, achieved at the Intomart GfK Open sharing first with 7/9 in April 2008, sharing second at Kunsthalle GM Open and reaching his second Grandmaster norm at Groningen by sharing fourth place with 6½/9.
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Anish Giri
Anish Kumar Giri (Nepali: अनीश कुमार गिरि; Russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. Giri is a five-time Dutch champion (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2023), and has represented the Netherlands at seven Chess Olympiads (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024).
As of April 2026,[update] Giri is the No. 1 ranked player in the Netherlands, having switched from Russia in 2009. He has also won major international tournaments, most notably the 2023 Tata Steel Chess Tournament becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall, to do so. After previously qualifying for and competing in the 2016 and 2020 Candidates Tournaments by having one of the highest average ratings, Giri won the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 in September 2025, qualifying him for the Candidates Tournament 2026.
Giri was born in Saint Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to a Russian mother, Olga, and Nepalese father, Sanjay Giri. His paternal grandmother is Indian and is of Indo-Nepalese descent.
He moved to Sapporo, Japan, with his parents in 2002 and lived there until 2008. Since February 2008, Giri and his family have lived in the Dutch town of Rijswijk, where his father worked at a research and consulting foundation. In June 2013, Giri graduated from Grotius College in Delft.[citation needed]
Giri speaks Russian, English, and Dutch. When he was a child, he also spoke Nepali and Japanese.
Giri began playing chess with his mother at age six. By age 11, he was rated above 2100 (mid-level expert; just below master) and continued to grow stronger. Giri's first club was a local youth sport club DYUSSH-2 in Saint Petersburg, where his trainers were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov. He was a member of the Japan Chess Association and Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan. In 2004, he won the Sapporo Chess Championship.
Giri developed quickly as a junior, his rating increasing rapidly between April 2006 and July 2010 from 2114 to 2672. Giri worked with trainer Vladimir Chuchelov between 2009–2012 and resumed in 2017. Giri also worked with Vladimir Tukmakov between 2013 and 2016.[citation needed]
Giri shared first place in the Russian Higher League Under-14s Boys Championship scoring 6½/9, winning the Saint Petersburg Boys Under 16s and coming third in the Under 18s event in 2007. The next year saw him share first at the Blokadny Saint Petersburg Open and win the Petrograd Winter Open scoring 8½/9. He followed with his first Grandmaster norm, achieved at the Intomart GfK Open sharing first with 7/9 in April 2008, sharing second at Kunsthalle GM Open and reaching his second Grandmaster norm at Groningen by sharing fourth place with 6½/9.
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