PENTALA HARIKRISHNA

Pentala Harikrishna (26 years old) is the second best player of India after the world champion Viswanathan Anand, his ELO is 2692. Among his biggest chess success belongs the victory in the junior World championship in 2004 and the first place in B tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2012, that qualified him into the main tournament, where he will be facing the best players of the world (in January 2013). Three weeks training camp with David Navara in Prague serves as a part of his preparation for this big tournament.