Career
He has also fulfilled the requirements for the Grandmaster title which will be awarded at the next FIDE congress. Tari is from Lierskogen near Drammen and is the child of Iranian immigrants. He has played chess since the age of five.
At the Open Norwegian Championship in Fagernes in March 2013, Tari finished in seventh place and scored a Grandmaster norm, the second youngest Norwegian player ever to do southern
Tari secured his second Grandmaster norm over nine rounds at the 2015 European Team Chess Championship in Reykjavik 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.
He will be Norway"s 12th player to be awarded this title.