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| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 01:50:54 Play online chess |  Subject: Young GrandmastersMessage: No. - Player - Nat. - years - months - days - year 1 Sergey Karjakin UKR .................12 7 0 2002 2 Magnus Carlsen NOR ................13 3 27 2004 3 Bu Xiangzhi CHN .....................13 10 13 1999 4 Teimour Radjabov AZE .............14 0 14 2001 5 Ruslan Ponomaryov UKR ..........14 0 17 1997 6 Etienne Bacrot FRA .................14 2 0 1997 7 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA ....14 4 0 2005 8 Peter Leko HUN ......................14 4 22 1994 9 Yuri Kuzubov UKR ...................14 7 12 2004 10 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 14 10 0 2004 11 Hikaru Nakamura USA ............15 2 19 2003 12 Koneru Humpy IND ................15 4 28 2002 13 Judit Polgar HUN ...................15 4 28 1991 14 Alejandro Ramirez CRI ............15 5 14 2003 15 Bobby Fischer USA ................15 6 1 1958 more here: -> www.chessbase.com Bw. Cairo |
| Posted by schnarre mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 11:16:22 Play online chess | Hmmnnnn..... Message: |
| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 12:21:46 Play online chess | Even Message: Bw. Cairo |
| Posted by fmgaijin mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 15:07:30 Play online chess | Capa was clearly . . . Message: With both Capa and Fischer and perhaps other "oldtimers" like Kasparov even, the "date" of GM is a little deceptive because they did not have opportunities to play in GM norm events earlier and then demonstrated GM skills on their FIRST TRY (!). That is, Fischer's first international event was the Interzonal, where he qualified for the Candidates Tournament as one of the top 10 players in the world and automatically became a GM, but he was clearly GM strength at 14 when he won the US Championship. Similarly, Capa won his international debut at San Sebastian ahead of Rubinstein, Nimzo, Schlecter, etc. These days, a young player usually gets many chances to play in norm events and can gain the titles more quickly as a result. |
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