GM Giri Anish comments

[Checkmate]

On the chessbase site I replayed a nice games commented by GM Giri Anish. When he finished his game, he had more time on the clock as when the game started. Obviously the game was played with an time increment per move. The comments are very instructive and thats why I like it and post the game here.

You can replay the game with comments here: Ginsburg,G - Giri,A, Budesliga Emsdetten 09/10.

The comment on after 6...Nb4 is impressive I think ("Now Black is slightly better"). This somehow means his opponent, playing with white, didnt realize he was worse after even 6 moves

[Kieran]

I think Giri is rapidly becoming one of the best annotators around - the stuff he did for Chessbase during the world championship stood out from most of the others.

It will be interesting to see how he develops over the coming years - he is four years Carlsen's junior and at approx the same age Magnus was only 4 elo points higher rated.... guess a lot can go wrong still for Anish, but still lots of room for optimism.

[Crossroad]

I think the reason why everybody likes his comments is, that he keeps it very simple without many variations. And he also gives clear evaluations without much respect of names (it's not easy to criticize a world champion or a 2800+ player ).

I didn't know he is about the same rating-level like Carlsen was in this age. I am not sure, but I think Carlsen's rating wasn't really high in his younger years because he was not supported like for example Karjakin.

[Kieran]

You raise an interesting point, I went to the Fide website to compare the relative ratings of Carlsen and Karjakin over time. The first common data point is April 2001 when Karjakin was 200 points ahead of Carlsen. Over the next year Karjakin had a storming period which increased this gap to over 300 points. Thereafter Karjakins progress has been much slower. interestingly the cross over point seems to be around 2006.

How to compare against Giri?

Well - Giri has added 550 elo points over 5 years, starting from 2102. Karjakin has added 550 points (approx) over 10 years. Perhaps this comparison is a little unfair as the first data point for Karjakin is a rating of 2196 v Giri's starting rating of 2102. The rate of improvement of Carlsen, on a very unscientific approach of looking at the graphs, appears about the same.

[Crossroad]

Karjaking was very well supported in his young age. I think with Giri it is bit different and he maybe has more talent than Karjakin. However, Giri now is very well known an will get invitations to big tournaments with 2700+ players. So I think his rating will soon be over 2700 and we will see him in Linares, Wijk, etc.

[Meister]

I tend to agree with Crossroad. Anish's progress this year has been phenomenal, and it's only a matter of time before he breaks 2700.

By the way I suggest you look at his games from Sigeman as well. Classic stuff!