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Congratulations to Praggnanandhaa on becoming the second youngest grandmaster in the history of chess! https://bit.ly/2Kd4Ky1
Youngest GM's in the World:
1. Sergey Karjakin (12y 7m 0d)
2. praggnanandhaa (12y 10m 13d)
3. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (13y 1m 11d)
4. Parimarjan Negi (13y 4m 22d)
5. Magnus Carlsen (13y 4m 27d)
1. Sergey Karjakin (12y 7m 0d)
2. praggnanandhaa (12y 10m 13d)
3. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (13y 1m 11d)
4. Parimarjan Negi (13y 4m 22d)
5. Magnus Carlsen (13y 4m 27d)
"Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements."
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The opening moves of the famous game John Nunn (England) v. John van der Wiel (Netherlands), Wijk aan Zee 1982.
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Two World Champions Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian playing ping pong in Yugoslavia, 1959.
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Aleksei Suetin v. Mikhail Botvinnik, 20th USSR-ch, Moscow 1952. This game was played in the final round; by grinding out a win in 78 moves, ..
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Benidorm 2003; this is where I first met these two guys. We invited Sergey Karjakin because he had just achieved the GM title;
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💠 #about_Karjakin
🔸Sergey Karjakin
🔸Russian chess Grandmaster
🔰 Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
🔘 Full name: Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin
🔘 Country: Ukraine (until 2009)
Russia (since 2009)
🔘 Born: 12 January 1990 (age 28)
Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2003)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2782 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2788 (July 2011)
🔘 Ranking: No. 9 (April 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking : No. 4 (July 2011)
🔰Karjakin learned to play chess at the age of 5. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 1999, and was World U12 Chess Champion in 2001. He earned the international master title at age 11, and was awarded his grandmaster title in 2003. He represented Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad in 2004, winning team and individual gold. He competed in two more Chess Olympiads for Ukraine, and won the Corus chess tournament in 2009, before transferring to Russia. He has since represented Russia four times in the Chess Olympiad, winning individual gold in 2010. He also won team gold with Russia at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship.
🔰 Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship, and the Norway Chess tournament in 2013 and 2014. He competed at the Candidates Tournament 2014, placing second. He won the Chess World Cup 2015, thus qualifying for the Candidates Tournament 2016. He won the tournament and earned the right to challenge for the World Chess Championship. In November 2016, he lost the championship match to Magnus Carlsen in the rapid tiebreaks after drawing 6–6 in the classical games. He won the 2016 World Blitz Chess Championship. He participated in the candidates tournament again in 2018, placing third.
♦️A memorable game by Karjakin in Candidate 2016 which named "Serge of Power" in chessgames.com site!👇
▪️ Sergey Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand
▪️ World Championship Candidates (2016), Moscow RUS, rd 4, Mar-15
▪️ Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Defense (A06)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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🔸Sergey Karjakin
🔸Russian chess Grandmaster
🔰 Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
🔘 Full name: Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin
🔘 Country: Ukraine (until 2009)
Russia (since 2009)
🔘 Born: 12 January 1990 (age 28)
Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2003)
🔘 FIDE rating: 2782 (June 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2788 (July 2011)
🔘 Ranking: No. 9 (April 2018)
🔘 Peak ranking : No. 4 (July 2011)
🔰Karjakin learned to play chess at the age of 5. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 1999, and was World U12 Chess Champion in 2001. He earned the international master title at age 11, and was awarded his grandmaster title in 2003. He represented Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad in 2004, winning team and individual gold. He competed in two more Chess Olympiads for Ukraine, and won the Corus chess tournament in 2009, before transferring to Russia. He has since represented Russia four times in the Chess Olympiad, winning individual gold in 2010. He also won team gold with Russia at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship.
🔰 Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship, and the Norway Chess tournament in 2013 and 2014. He competed at the Candidates Tournament 2014, placing second. He won the Chess World Cup 2015, thus qualifying for the Candidates Tournament 2016. He won the tournament and earned the right to challenge for the World Chess Championship. In November 2016, he lost the championship match to Magnus Carlsen in the rapid tiebreaks after drawing 6–6 in the classical games. He won the 2016 World Blitz Chess Championship. He participated in the candidates tournament again in 2018, placing third.
♦️A memorable game by Karjakin in Candidate 2016 which named "Serge of Power" in chessgames.com site!👇
▪️ Sergey Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand
▪️ World Championship Candidates (2016), Moscow RUS, rd 4, Mar-15
▪️ Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Defense (A06)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇
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🔹 Sergey Karjakin - Viswanathan Anand, World Championship Candidates (2016)
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🔹 Annotated by Indian IM Sagar Shah
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🔹 PGN format
🔹 Annotated by Indian IM Sagar Shah
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21...Bg5?
Wesley could have seized an advantage by capturing White's c4-pawn:
21...N×c4! 22.b×c4 R×c4 -+
22.N×g5 Q×g5 23.Q×g5 h×g5 24.c×d5 N×d5 25.B×d5 e×d5 26.Rc1 g4 =
Wesley could have seized an advantage by capturing White's c4-pawn:
21...N×c4! 22.b×c4 R×c4 -+
22.N×g5 Q×g5 23.Q×g5 h×g5 24.c×d5 N×d5 25.B×d5 e×d5 26.Rc1 g4 =
10.Bc2?
Aronian's carelessness. It would have been better to play 10.Ndf1.
10...Ng4! 11.Re2 B×f2+! 12.R×f2 Ne3 13.Qe2 N×c2 14.Rb1 B×a2 15.b3 B×b1 16.N×b1 N2d4 17.c×d4 N×d4 18.N×d4 e×d4 -/+
Aronian's carelessness. It would have been better to play 10.Ndf1.
10...Ng4! 11.Re2 B×f2+! 12.R×f2 Ne3 13.Qe2 N×c2 14.Rb1 B×a2 15.b3 B×b1 16.N×b1 N2d4 17.c×d4 N×d4 18.N×d4 e×d4 -/+