Aryan Tari was Norwegian Junior Champion (2012), earned the IM title in 2013; won the Norwegian Championship in 2015, became a GM in 2016 and was World Junior Champion in 2017.
Tari was Norway's #1 junior and ranked in Norway's top ten of all players as of
January 2016.
Master Norms
<IM norms> Tari's first IM norm came at the 2013 Norwegian Open in 2013 (this was also a GM norm). He won his second IM norm at the Sveins 6th Memorial Tournament in June 2013 and his third norm came at the Norwegian Championship (2013). Subsequently, he won another IM norm at the Politiken Cup (2013) and 5.5/9 and an IM norm at the RTU open A (2013) in Latvia.
<GM norms> Tari won his first GM norm at the Norwegian Open in 2013 and subsequently won a double GM norm at the European Team Championship in 2015 on 22 November. His rating of over 2500, combined with his GM norms met all the criteria for the GM title, which was ratified by FIDE at its first quarter Presidential meeting early in 2016. At the date of effect of his GM title, he was aged 16 years 5 months and 18 days.
Championships
<Youth> Tari finished equal eighth in the 2008 U10 World Championship, tied for sixth in the 2009 U10 World championship, and was unplaced but scored 7.5/11 in the 2010 U12 World championship.
<Junior> In July 2012, Tari won the Norwegian Junior Championship with 8/9, 1.5 points clear of the field. In October 2014, he scored 8/13 at the World Junior Championship and repeated that score in the same event in 2015, placing fifth ex aequo.
<National> Tari finished equal third at the 2009 Norwegian Open Championships with 5/7, behind Joachim Solberg and Pal Andreas Hansen, earned an IM norm at the 2013 Norwegian Championship with 5/9. Won the Norwegian Championship in 2015 with 7/9.
<World> In November 2017, Tari became World Junior Champion with 8.5/11, on tiebreak ahead of Manuel Petrosyan and Chithambaram V R Aravindh.
Tournaments
Tari was winner of the under 1950 prize at the 2010 Gibtelecom challengers division. He competed at Gibraltar Masters (2013), scoring a solid 5.5/10 and at the Reykjavik Open (2013), Tari scored an even more solid 6.5/10, these events adding nearly 30 ratings points to his card.
One of Tari's best results in his early career was the 2013 Norwegian Open, when he scored 6/9 to place seventh, where he scored his first GM norm. He scored a strong 6/9 at the Sveins 6th Memorial Tournament held in June 2013, 7/10 at the Politiken Cup (2013) and 5.5/9 at the RTU open A (2013) in Latvia. Tari scored a strong 7/10 at the Politiken Cup (2014), two points from the lead. In September 2014, he won the Krager Grand Prix A 2014 and in 2015 Tari scored 7/9, half a point from the lead at the Vienna Open. He also tied for second at the Vasteras Open 2015.
Team events
<National> Tari represented the Norway 2 team at the Tromso Olympiad (2014) on board 4, scoring a rating-enhancing 4.5/9. He also represented Norway at the European Team Championship (2013) and at the European Team Championship (2015), scoring a double GM norm at the latter, thereby meeting the final criterion for the GM title.
<Leagues> Tari first played in the European Club Cup in 2011, when he played board 4 for the Norwegian team Asker SK. He did not play in the ECC again until 2015 where he played on board 2 for the Norwegian Club Vålerenga SK. In 2015, Tari started playing in the Iranian Superleague, the Norwegian Premiere League and in the German Bundesliga, representing the SC Hansa Dortmund club in the latter.
Wikipedia article: Aryan Tari
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