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Harikrishna played some phenomenal endgames at the Online Olympiad to help India win the Gold.

Pentala Harikrishna born 10 May is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November , and a peak Elo rating of in December On 17 August , he became the youngest Indian to attain the title of grandmaster, a record which was subsequently held by Koneru Humpy , Parimarjan Negi , Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Gukesh Dommaraju in that order.

At the Asian Team Championships, Harikrishna won his teams gold medal and two silver medals and In February , Harikrishna achieved an Elo rating for the first time, only the third Indian player to do so. He learned chess at the age of 4 from his grandfather Ranga Rao, who was also his first chess coach. Harikrishna was a highly successful junior player winning the Indian Under , Under , Under , Under and Under titles.

He won the Under 18 prize at the Commonwealth Chess Championship in His progress was such that, at the age of 14 years 5 months, he joined the Indian team for the Chess Olympiad, scoring 6. The second and third norms came soon after with a solid 6.

Harikrishna was a successful junior chess player.

Immediately after that he won on tiebreak the Commonwealth Championship, held in London, [ 8 ] then claimed first on tiebreak with Alexei Barsov and Krishnan Sasikiran at Hastings Chess Congress at the start of Despite a series of weaker results costing him 29 rating points between July and January , Harikrishna regained nearly all of them the next rating period with third place at Hastings and second place at the National "A" Championship in Mumbai.

Harikrishna's form continued with shared second at the Sharjah Open half a point behind Kotsur, shared seventh at the Parsvnath Open, shared fifth at the Tata Open and second at the Asian Zonal 3. Between the January and October rating lists, Harikrishna experienced a steady increase from to , first reaching in July Such success saw invitations to stronger events, such as Bermuda in early where despite losing to Boris Gelfand in the eighth round, victory in the two last rounds enabled him to catch up with him to tie for first, [ 17 ] followed by an even score at Dos Hermanas and fifth on tiebreak at HB Global Challenge.