One of the lengthy battle played (98 moves) in the current season of Candidates Tournament 2020, with Ponziani Opening and a caustious middle and end game, Anish Giri winning with black pieces in the end as Kirill was pressed for time and without any pawn.
Kirill Alexeyevich Alekseenko is a Russian chess grandmaster. 22-year-old Russian Kirill Alekseenko is the wild card for the 2020 Candidates Tournament.
Anish Kumar Giri is a Russian-born Dutch chess player. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days, which made him the youngest Grandmaster in the world at that time. FIDE awarded him the title in 2009.