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GMPentala Harikrishna

IND Born 1986 (Age ≈40) Male
FIDE ID
5007003

About Pentala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna grew up in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, where his grandfather Ranga Rao taught him chess at four. He won the world under-10 championship in 1996. At fourteen he made his Olympiad debut for India in Istanbul and earned his first grandmaster norm. Show more

Pentala Harikrishna grew up in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, where his grandfather Ranga Rao taught him chess at four. He won the world under-10 championship in 1996. At fourteen he made his Olympiad debut for India in Istanbul and earned his first grandmaster norm. In 2001 he became the youngest Indian grandmaster up to that time and won the Commonwealth Championship. He won the World Junior Championship in Kochi in 2004 with ten points from thirteen games. He added the Asian Individual Championship in 2011. Victories in the 2012 Tata Steel B tournament and 2013 Biel Open followed. He helped India win Asian team gold in 2009 and World Team bronze in 2010. He reached the world's top ten in 2016. In 2024 he was part of India's first Olympiad gold-medal team. He married Serbian chess player Nadežda Stojanović in 2018 and settled in Prague, playing club chess for Nový Bor.

FIDE ratings

Classical

2653.6 -5.4

Live estimate

Rapid

2595

Published FIDE

Blitz

2620

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#57
National rank · IND
#10

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

Rating milestones

Highest recorded rating
2770 Dec 2016
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
1632

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Live rankings

Rating history

FIDE rating history

Published rating lists through Nov 2026.

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Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-11 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
1001 2017-12-11 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 6.4 Yangyi Yu Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 110 Open
1002 2017-12-11 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 5.5 Pentala Harikrishna Anton Korobov Won: 1-0 52 Open
1003 2017-12-10 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 4.5 Alexander Grischuk Pentala Harikrishna Lost: 1-0 49 Open
1004 2017-12-10 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 3.5 Pentala Harikrishna Rauf Mamedov Draw: 1/2-1/2 78 Open
1005 2017-12-10 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 2.6 Vasyl Ivanchuk Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 57 Open
1006 2017-12-10 2nd IMSA Rapid 2017 Huai'an CHN 1.6 Pentala Harikrishna Hao Wang Lost: 0-1 34 Open
1007 2017-12-03 TCh-CZE Extraliga 2017-18 Czech Republic CZE 4.2 Aleksander Mista Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 48 Open
1008 2017-12-02 TCh-CZE Extraliga 2017-18 Czech Republic CZE 3.2 Pentala Harikrishna Kamil Miton Won: 1-0 41 Open
1009 2017-11-25 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 9.4 Pentala Harikrishna Peter Svidler Draw: 1/2-1/2 27 Open
1010 2017-11-24 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 8.2 Hikaru Nakamura Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 41 Open
1011 2017-11-23 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 7.4 Dmitry Jakovenko Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 23 Open
1012 2017-11-22 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 6.2 Pentala Harikrishna Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Draw: 1/2-1/2 44 Open
1013 2017-11-20 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 5.4 Teimour Radjabov Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 31 Open
1014 2017-11-19 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 4.5 Pentala Harikrishna Francisco Vallejo Pons Won: 1-0 33 Open
1015 2017-11-18 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 3.6 Ernesto Inarkiev Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 20 Open
1016 2017-11-17 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 2.7 Pentala Harikrishna Evgeny Tomashevsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 30 Open
1017 2017-11-16 Palma De Mallorca GP 2017 Palma de Mallorca ESP 1.9 Jon Ludvig Hammer Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 45 Open
1018 2017-11-12 Bundesliga 2017-18 Aachen GER 4.1 Pentala Harikrishna Zoltan Almasi Won: 1-0 51 Open
1019 2017-11-11 Bundesliga 2017-18 Aachen GER 3.1 Aleksander Mista Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 25 Open
1020 2017-10-14 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 7.1 Rauf Mamedov Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 41 Open
1021 2017-10-13 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 6.3 Pentala Harikrishna Viktor Erdos Won: 1-0 60 Open
1022 2017-10-12 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 5.2 Evgeniy Najer Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 47 Open
1023 2017-10-11 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 4.5 Pentala Harikrishna Roman Burstein Won: 1-0 36 Open
1024 2017-10-10 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 3.1 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 54 Open
1025 2017-10-09 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 2.3 Pentala Harikrishna Evgeny Postny Draw: 1/2-1/2 61 Open
1026 2017-10-08 33rd ECC Open 2017 Antalya TUR 1.4 Pentala Harikrishna Aryan Tari Won: 1-0 41 Open
1027 2017-09-08 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 2.4 Pentala Harikrishna S.P. Sethuraman Lost: 0-1 62 Open
1028 2017-09-08 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 2.3 S.P. Sethuraman Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 58 Open
1029 2017-09-07 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 2.2 S.P. Sethuraman Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 38 Open
1030 2017-09-06 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 2.1 Pentala Harikrishna S.P. Sethuraman Draw: 1/2-1/2 24 Open
1031 2017-09-05 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.6 Pentala Harikrishna Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Won: 1-0 46 Open
1032 2017-09-05 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.5 Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 46 Open
1033 2017-09-05 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.4 Pentala Harikrishna Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Draw: 1/2-1/2 88 Open
1034 2017-09-05 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.3 Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 80 Open
1035 2017-09-04 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.2 Pentala Harikrishna Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Won: 1-0 41 Open
1036 2017-09-03 FIDE World Cup 2017 Tbilisi GEO 1.1 Yuri Gonzalez Vidal Pentala Harikrishna Lost: 1-0 36 Open
1037 2017-08-02 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 9.5 Pentala Harikrishna Etienne Bacrot Lost: 0-1 29 Open
1038 2017-08-01 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 8.1 Ruslan Ponomariov Pentala Harikrishna Won: 0-1 58 Open
1039 2017-07-31 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 7.5 David Navara Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 24 Open
1040 2017-07-30 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 6.2 Pentala Harikrishna Yifan Hou Won: 1-0 52 Open
1041 2017-07-28 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 5.4 Peter Leko Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 57 Open
1042 2017-07-27 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 4.1 Pentala Harikrishna Noel Studer Won: 1-0 24 Open
1043 2017-07-26 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 3.3 Alexander Morozevich Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 41 Open
1044 2017-07-25 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 2.2 Pentala Harikrishna Nico Georgiadis Draw: 1/2-1/2 55 Open
1045 2017-07-24 50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI 1.2 Rafael A Vaganian Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 21 Open
1046 2017-07-23 50th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid Biel SUI 3.2 Pentala Harikrishna David Navara Draw: 1/2-1/2 46 Open
1047 2017-07-23 50th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid Biel SUI 3.1 David Navara Pentala Harikrishna Lost: 1-0 37 Open
1048 2017-07-23 50th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid Biel SUI 2.2 Yannick Pelletier Pentala Harikrishna Won: 0-1 35 Open
1049 2017-07-23 50th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid Biel SUI 2.1 Pentala Harikrishna Yannick Pelletier Won: 1-0 56 Open
1050 2017-07-23 50th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid Biel SUI 1.2 Vlastimil Hort Pentala Harikrishna Draw: 1/2-1/2 43 Open
  1. vs Yangyi YuDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-11 · Round 6.42nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  2. vs Anton KorobovWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-11 · Round 5.52nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  3. vs Alexander GrischukLost · 1-0Black · 2017-12-10 · Round 4.52nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  4. vs Rauf MamedovDraw · ½–½White · 2017-12-10 · Round 3.52nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  5. vs Vasyl IvanchukDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-10 · Round 2.62nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  6. vs Hao WangLost · 0-1White · 2017-12-10 · Round 1.62nd IMSA Rapid 2017
  7. vs Aleksander MistaDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-12-03 · Round 4.2TCh-CZE Extraliga 2017-18
  8. vs Kamil MitonWon · 1-0White · 2017-12-02 · Round 3.2TCh-CZE Extraliga 2017-18
  9. vs Peter SvidlerDraw · ½–½White · 2017-11-25 · Round 9.4Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  10. vs Hikaru NakamuraDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-24 · Round 8.2Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  11. vs Dmitry JakovenkoDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-23 · Round 7.4Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  12. vs Maxime Vachier-LagraveDraw · ½–½White · 2017-11-22 · Round 6.2Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  13. vs Teimour RadjabovDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-20 · Round 5.4Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  14. vs Francisco Vallejo PonsWon · 1-0White · 2017-11-19 · Round 4.5Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  15. vs Ernesto InarkievDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-18 · Round 3.6Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  16. vs Evgeny TomashevskyDraw · ½–½White · 2017-11-17 · Round 2.7Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  17. vs Jon Ludvig HammerDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-16 · Round 1.9Palma De Mallorca GP 2017
  18. vs Zoltan AlmasiWon · 1-0White · 2017-11-12 · Round 4.1Bundesliga 2017-18
  19. vs Aleksander MistaDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-11-11 · Round 3.1Bundesliga 2017-18
  20. vs Rauf MamedovDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-10-14 · Round 7.133rd ECC Open 2017
  21. vs Viktor ErdosWon · 1-0White · 2017-10-13 · Round 6.333rd ECC Open 2017
  22. vs Evgeniy NajerDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-10-12 · Round 5.233rd ECC Open 2017
  23. vs Roman BursteinWon · 1-0White · 2017-10-11 · Round 4.533rd ECC Open 2017
  24. vs Shakhriyar MamedyarovDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-10-10 · Round 3.133rd ECC Open 2017
  25. vs Evgeny PostnyDraw · ½–½White · 2017-10-09 · Round 2.333rd ECC Open 2017
  26. vs Aryan TariWon · 1-0White · 2017-10-08 · Round 1.433rd ECC Open 2017
  27. vs S.P. SethuramanLost · 0-1White · 2017-09-08 · Round 2.4FIDE World Cup 2017
  28. vs S.P. SethuramanDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-09-08 · Round 2.3FIDE World Cup 2017
  29. vs S.P. SethuramanDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-09-07 · Round 2.2FIDE World Cup 2017
  30. vs S.P. SethuramanDraw · ½–½White · 2017-09-06 · Round 2.1FIDE World Cup 2017
  31. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalWon · 1-0White · 2017-09-05 · Round 1.6FIDE World Cup 2017
  32. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-09-05 · Round 1.5FIDE World Cup 2017
  33. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalDraw · ½–½White · 2017-09-05 · Round 1.4FIDE World Cup 2017
  34. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-09-05 · Round 1.3FIDE World Cup 2017
  35. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalWon · 1-0White · 2017-09-04 · Round 1.2FIDE World Cup 2017
  36. vs Yuri Gonzalez VidalLost · 1-0Black · 2017-09-03 · Round 1.1FIDE World Cup 2017
  37. vs Etienne BacrotLost · 0-1White · 2017-08-02 · Round 9.550th Biel GM 2017
  38. vs Ruslan PonomariovWon · 0-1Black · 2017-08-01 · Round 8.150th Biel GM 2017
  39. vs David NavaraDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-07-31 · Round 7.550th Biel GM 2017
  40. vs Yifan HouWon · 1-0White · 2017-07-30 · Round 6.250th Biel GM 2017
  41. vs Peter LekoDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-07-28 · Round 5.450th Biel GM 2017
  42. vs Noel StuderWon · 1-0White · 2017-07-27 · Round 4.150th Biel GM 2017
  43. vs Alexander MorozevichDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-07-26 · Round 3.350th Biel GM 2017
  44. vs Nico GeorgiadisDraw · ½–½White · 2017-07-25 · Round 2.250th Biel GM 2017
  45. vs Rafael A VaganianDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-07-24 · Round 1.250th Biel GM 2017
  46. vs David NavaraDraw · ½–½White · 2017-07-23 · Round 3.250th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid
  47. vs David NavaraLost · 1-0Black · 2017-07-23 · Round 3.150th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid
  48. vs Yannick PelletierWon · 0-1Black · 2017-07-23 · Round 2.250th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid
  49. vs Yannick PelletierWon · 1-0White · 2017-07-23 · Round 2.150th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid
  50. vs Vlastimil HortDraw · ½–½Black · 2017-07-23 · Round 1.250th Biel ACCENTUS Rapid

FIDE tournaments

DateTournamentTypeScore
2026-10-1741st European Chess Club Cup - OPENClassical5

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