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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@Karjakin-Anand 2016.pgn
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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 -/+
25.d×e4
Better was 25.R×f5! A shocking combination.
A) 25...Q×f5 26.Qc7 with a forced mate.
B) 25...g×f5 26.N×e4+ Kf7 27.Qg7+ Ke6 28.Qf6+ Kd7 29.Qd6#
25...c4??
Aronian also didn't see the combination.
26.R×f5! g×f5 27.N×h7+ Kf7 28.Qg7+ Ke6 29.Qf6+ Kd7 30.Q×d4+ Kc7 31.Bf4+ Kc6 32.Q×c4+ 1-0
Better was 25.R×f5! A shocking combination.
A) 25...Q×f5 26.Qc7 with a forced mate.
B) 25...g×f5 26.N×e4+ Kf7 27.Qg7+ Ke6 28.Qf6+ Kd7 29.Qd6#
25...c4??
Aronian also didn't see the combination.
26.R×f5! g×f5 27.N×h7+ Kf7 28.Qg7+ Ke6 29.Qf6+ Kd7 30.Q×d4+ Kc7 31.Bf4+ Kc6 32.Q×c4+ 1-0
27. cxd5??
Nakamura blunders a piece. Better was 27. Rb1 g6 28. Rxb4 Qxb4 29. Nf3 Qxc4 30. Qxc4 dxc4 31. Kf1-/+ with some drawing chances.
27... Rxd4 28. Rb1
28. Qxc5 Rxd1+ 29. Kg2 Nxc5-+
28... g6 29. Rb8+ Kg7 30. Qb2 Qxd5 31. Rb4 e5 32. Rb5 Rd2 33. Qb4 Nc5 0-1
Nakamura blunders a piece. Better was 27. Rb1 g6 28. Rxb4 Qxb4 29. Nf3 Qxc4 30. Qxc4 dxc4 31. Kf1-/+ with some drawing chances.
27... Rxd4 28. Rb1
28. Qxc5 Rxd1+ 29. Kg2 Nxc5-+
28... g6 29. Rb8+ Kg7 30. Qb2 Qxd5 31. Rb4 e5 32. Rb5 Rd2 33. Qb4 Nc5 0-1
18.b4!
This move has two critical purposes. It supports the transfer of White's knight to the powerful c5-square, and it also effectively fixes Black's a-pawn on the vulnerable a6-square. Black would like to free his pieces from the worry of defending this pawn by playing ...a5, but now he must always take into account the white reply b5, establishing a strong passed b-pawn.
18...Kf8 19.Nc5 Bc8 20.f3 Rea7!? 21.Re5+/-.
This move has two critical purposes. It supports the transfer of White's knight to the powerful c5-square, and it also effectively fixes Black's a-pawn on the vulnerable a6-square. Black would like to free his pieces from the worry of defending this pawn by playing ...a5, but now he must always take into account the white reply b5, establishing a strong passed b-pawn.
18...Kf8 19.Nc5 Bc8 20.f3 Rea7!? 21.Re5+/-.