Aryan Tari (Persian: آرین طاری; born 4 June 1999) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster of Iranian descent. Tari was Norwegian champion in 2015 and 2019 and won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017. As of November 2021,[update] he is the second-highest ranked player from Norway by FIDE, after only current World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
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![]() Tari at the 2015 World Rapid Chess Championship | |
Country | Norway |
Born | (1999-06-04) 4 June 1999 (age 23) Stavanger, Norway |
Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
FIDE rating | 2660 (November 2022) |
Peak rating | 2672 (July 2022) |
Ranking | No. 88 (November 2022) |
Peak ranking | No. 70 (August 2022) |
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. Following an eighth-place finish in 2013[3] and a second-place finish in 2014,[4] Tari won the 2015 Championship. At age 16 he is the third youngest player to achieve this feat, after Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen, who won at age 15.[5]
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.[6]
Tari secured his second grandmaster norm over nine rounds at the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavik 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.
In the 2019/2020 season, he played as a foreigner for the Czech Extraliga team SLAVIA Kroměříž.[11][12] In 2020/2021 Spanish CECLUB championship, he played for Xadrez Ourense. [13]
Tari was born in Stavanger[14] to Faranak and Siamak Tari, both from Iran who migrated to Norway before his birth.[1]
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