Pouria Darini ( fa, پوریا درینی; born January 24, 1991) is an Iranian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...

in 2013.

Chess career

He represented his country in the

2012 Chess Olympiad The 40th Chess Olympiad ( tr, 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place in Istan ...

and played in the

Chess World Cup 2013 The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Hotels, Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. It was won by Vladimir Kr ...

, where he was defeated in the first round by Dmitry Andreikin. Darini won the Iranian Semi-final Chess Championship in 2009. He won the 9th Ebne Sina Open Chess Tournament in Hamedan in 2010. He won the 4th Sardaran Open in 2015. Darini tied 3rd to 8th place in the 18th Dubai Open in 2016 with Mikhail Al. Antipov, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi,

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, and

Boris Savchenko Boris Savchenko (russian: Борис Савченко; born 10 July 1986) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Chess career Savchenko competed in the FIDE World Cup 2007 as one of the five FIDE pr ...

. He achieved 4th place in the 2020 Iranian championship.

References

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Pouria Darini
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Darini, Pouria 1991 births Living people Chess grandmasters Iranian chess players