At the age of 16, young phenom S. Karjakin (the world’s youngest GM ever) won Tomsk, a category 18 double round robin tournament with Morozevich, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Rublevsky and Bologan by 1.5 points!!
Final standings:
1. Karjakin 2679 – 7 points
2. Rublevsky 2667 – 5.5
3. Kasimdzhanov 2672 – 5.0
4. Morozevich 2731 – 4.5
5-6. Ponomariov 2721 and Bologan 2645 – 4.0
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
as mentioned in an other blog posting here, a few weeks ago – i assume Sergej Karjakin to become the “sixth in a row of great K’s” (Keres, Kortchnoi, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, …) – and he has the abilities to become the greatest “K” ever…
yours Vohaul
Congrats.
How Karjakin has left Nakamura far behind. I guess coaching does help.
Susan, a good point raised on Nakamura falling behind Serge’s climb in chess strength is this….How can US/USCF emulate Norway’s Magnus Carlsen’s teaching and also TUrkey’s chess program? Nakamura has a lot of potential and strength, but how do we systematically and methodically go about teaching our young talent to go forward into world’s elite group or top ten GM’s?
We can’t teach unless they want to be taught.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
And playing a lot of bullet/blitz games on Playchess server is NOT the best way to progress! (BTW, neither is playing crazyhouse 😉 )
This was a rapid tournament, just for your information.