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Pendyala Harikrishna (born May 10, 1986) is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India on September 12, 2001. As of August 2015, he is ranked No. 2 in India (behind ex-world champion Viswanathan Anand) and No. 17 in the world.〔http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=5007003〕〔https://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=361〕 ==Chess career== In November 2004, he won the World Junior Chess Championship. In August 2006, he won the Chess960 (Fischer Random) Junior Chess Championship, beating Arkadij Naiditsch 4½–3½ in the final.〔(ChessBase.com – Chess News – Chess Classic Chess960 results, Anand and Aronian simuls )〕 As of early 2012, GM Harikrishna is playing first board for chess club Eppingen in Chess Bundesliga, and he is a member of Spanish chess club Solvay since 2007 (first board). Harikrishna is also the first board for BPCL A team, which has won PSPB Inter Unit Chess Tournaments in 2010 and 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BPCL A win title )〕 In international team competition, Harikrishna has represented the Indian team in six Chess Olympiads since 2000. In May 2011 he won the Asian Chess Championship. In January 2012 he won group B of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. This result qualifies him to participate in the A group in 2013, considered one of the strongest tournaments each year. As a debutant in A group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2013 Harikrishna finished in the first half (7th place) and reached an Elo rating of over 2700. In August 2013 he won Biel chess tournament (Masters Open Tournament) with 8½/11〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Master Tournament Standings )〕 and the Biel Rapid Tournament with 7½/9.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swiss Rapid Chess Championship )〕 In June 2015, he won the 10th Edmonton International Chess Festival with a score of 7.5/9 (+6,-0,=3), including a 5/5 start.〔http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=85858〕 Away from chess, Harikrishna is majoring in political science, sociology, and public administration at DR. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (Andhra Pradesh Open University). He is also employed at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. in Hyderabad from June 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pendyala Harikrishna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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