Anish Giri

Kirill Alekseenko Vs Anish Giri at Candidates Chess Tournament 2020 round 06

One of the lengthy battle played (98 moves) in the current season of Candidates Tournament 2020, with Ponziani Opening and a caustious middle and end game, Anish Giri winning with black pieces in the end as Kirill was pressed for time and without any pawn.

Kirill Alexeyevich Alekseenko is a Russian chess grandmaster. 22-year-old Russian Kirill Alekseenko is the wild card for the 2020 Candidates Tournament.

Anish Kumar Giri is a Russian-born Dutch chess player. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days, which made him the youngest Grandmaster in the world at that time. FIDE awarded him the title in 2009.