An impressive performance by the young Ukrainian GM Sergey Karjakin. He dominated British GM Nigel Short by the score of 5.5 – 1.5 in 7 games in a best of 10 match. Karjakin has come a long way since he lost a rapid match against Nakamura a few years ago.
Here is the final victory to seal the match:
GM Karjakin (2727) – GM Short (2655) [A52]
06.07.2008 / Match Game 7
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Nf3 Bc5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Be2 0–0 7.0–0 Re8 8.Nc3 Ngxe5 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 10.b3 a5 11.Ne4 Bf8 12.Bb2 d6 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.Qd2 Bc6 15.Rad1 g6 16.Nd5 Bg7 17.Kh1 f5 18.Qc3 Bxd5 19.Rxd5 Re7 20.c5 Nd7 21.Qc4 b5 22.Qc2 Nxc5 23.Bxb5 Qf8 24.Ba3 Ne4 25.Bc6 Ra7 26.f3 Nf6 27.Rd3 Kh8 28.e4 f4 29.Rfd1 Nd7 30.Bxd7 Rxd7 31.Rd5 Re7 32.Bc1 Re5 33.R1d3 g5 34.Bd2 h6 35.Rxe5 Bxe5 36.Rd5 a4 37.bxa4 Qe8 38.a5 Kh7 39.h3 Qb8 40.Bc3 c6 41.Rd1 Qb5 42.Bxe5 dxe5 43.a4 Qb7 44.Qc5 Qc7 45.Qf8 Qxa5 46.Kh2 Qc7 47.Rd6 Qg7 48.Qf5+ White wins 1–0
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The chess community looks very rich. If I would go about asking/begging for a tax-free personal donation for, let’s say 25,000 US$, how would I go about it? In return I could only say thank you as many times as the amount of dollars I would get.
One poor chess fan.
..and the 8th went to Short.