Former World Junior Champion and Grandmaster P Harikrishna rose to fame in chess when he won the World Under –10 chess championship in 1996. In the years that followed Harikrishna won many prestigious tournaments including the Commonwealth championship. In 2001 Harikrishna became the youngest Grandmaster in India and since then the growth of the Hyderabad based has been exemplary. Harikrishna was recently nominated for the Arjuna Award and on Wednesday he finished joint first in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial tournament at Paks in Hungary.

Now, he has his own website. Check it out: http://www.harikrishnachess.com/

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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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