Aryan Tari

Aryan Tari
Tari in 2023
CountryNorway
Born (1999-06-04) 4 June 1999 (age 25)
Stavanger, Norway
TitleGrandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating2623 (January 2025)
Peak rating2672 (July 2022)
Peak rankingNo. 70 (August 2022)

Aryan Tari (Persian: آرین طاری; born 4 June 1999) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Tari was Norwegian champion in 2015 and 2019 and won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017. As of May 2024, he is the third-highest ranked player from Norway.

Chess career

2012–2014

Tari has played chess since the age of five.[1] He won the Junior section of the Norwegian Chess Championship in 2012,[2] qualifying him for the championship section in 2013. At the Open Norwegian Championship in Fagernes in March 2013, Tari finished in seventh place and scored a norm for the title of Grandmaster, the second youngest Norwegian player ever to have done so at the time.[3] Following an eighth-place finish in 2013[4] and a second-place finish in 2014.[5]

2015–2018

Tari won the 2015 Norwegian Chess Championship, At age 16 he was the third youngest player to achieve this feat, after Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen, who won at age 15.[6] Tari secured his second grandmaster norm over nine rounds at the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavík where he played Norway's third board and scored six points.[7] A special FIDE clause for the continental team championships regards this as a 20-game norm,[8] which together with his norm from Fagernes and rating over 2500 is sufficient for the grandmaster title; this title was awarded at the FIDE congress in March 2016. He was Norway's 12th player to be awarded this title.[9]

At the European Individual Chess Championship, played 12–23 May 2016, Tari achieved his best result in his career with 7½/11 (+5–1=5). This gave him a twenty-second-place finish and earned him a berth in the Chess World Cup 2017 in Tbilisi,[10] where he was eliminated in the second round after losing 1½-½ to Aleksandr Lenderman.

2019–2022

In the 2019–20 season, he played as a foreigner for the Czech Extraliga team Slavia Kroměříž.[11][12] Tari won the Norwegian Chess Championship 2019 for the second time ever. In 2020–21 Spanish CECLUB championship, he played for Xadrez Ourense.[13] Tari played in the Norway Chess 2022 and defeated Magnus Carlsen for the first time, later he represented Norway in the 44th Chess Olympiad which was held in Chennai, India.

Personal life

Tari was born in Stavanger[14] to Faranak and Siamak Tari, both from Iran who migrated to Norway before his birth.[1] He grew up in Lierskogen outside Drammen, Norway.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Nilsen, Bjørn Haakon (22 December 2013). "- JEG ER DEN NESTE SJAKK-KONGEN" (in Norwegian). Se og Hør. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Landsturneringen 2012". Turneringsservice. 29 June 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Aryan Tari – GM Norm at thirteen". Chessbase. 7 April 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Landsturneringen 2013". Turneringsservice. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Landsturneringen 2014". Turneringsservice. 19 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  6. ^ Blauhut, Holger (16 July 2015). "Aryan Tari wins Norwegian Championship". Chessbase. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Etcc 2015 - Open section". Chess-results.com. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Table for Direct Titles effective from 1 July 2014". FIDE. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  9. ^ Strøm, Ole Kristina (24 November 2015). "Norges nye sjakkstjerne: – Det betyr mye å slå Magnus". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  10. ^ Barth-Nilsen, Kate (23 May 2016). "Skal spille VM-kvalifisering" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Družstvo - Slavia Kroměříž".
  12. ^ "Slávistické zbrojení a hartusení na sezónu 2019/2020".
  13. ^ "CECLUB División de Honor - 2021".
  14. ^ GM title application. FIDE.
  15. ^ "Aryan (16) er tidenes tredje yngste sjakkmester". 12 July 2015.
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