Aryan Tari (Persian: آرین طاری; born 4 June 1999) is a Norwegian

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grandmaster. Tari was Norwegian champion in 2015 and 2019 and won the

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in 2017. he is the third-highest ranked player from Norway.

Chess career

2012–2014

Tari has played chess since the age of five. He won the Junior section of the Norwegian Chess Championship in 2012, 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

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for the title of Grandmaster, the second youngest Norwegian player ever to have done so at the time. Following an eighth-place finish in 2013 and a second-place finish in 2014.

2015–2018

Tari won the 2015 Norwegian Chess Championship, At age 16 he was the third youngest player to achieve this feat, after

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and

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, who won at age 15. Tari secured his second grandmaster norm over nine rounds at the 2015

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where he played Norway's third board and scored six points. A special FIDE clause for the continental team championships regards this as a 20-game norm, 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. At the

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, 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

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, where he was eliminated in the second round after losing 1½-½ to

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2019–2022

In the 2019–20 season, he played as a foreigner for the Czech Extraliga team Slavia Kroměříž. Tari won the

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2019 for the second time ever. In 2020–21 Spanish CECLUB championship, he played for Xadrez Ourense. Tari played in the

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2022 and defeated

for the first time, later he represented

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in the

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which was held in

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, India.

Personal life

Tari was born in

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to Faranak and Siamak Tari, both from

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who migrated to Norway before his birth. He grew up in Lierskogen outside

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...

, Norway.

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